I'm not the biggest star in the world, but I do have a platform, and if I can use that platform to help somebody else, why wouldn't I?

Love is an energy. You can feed it to people, and they in turn feed it to others, and eventually it comes back.

It's not enough to do the tasks that are expected or required of us. We have to give more, do more, be more.

This world is vast enough to handle anything you dare to dream.

You can't be free if the cost of being you is too high.

I think the number one safe haven where people put their money is to invest in yourself first.

I'm not telling anyone, 'Quit your job and be homeless to go for your dream.'

All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.

All of us have to figure out our own passion, our own journey. Follow your heart.

The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first.

I believe that love expands. As you give love out, it's received and reciprocated and it grows. That's the beauty of it.

When you open your heart to someone, you're also exposing it to pain.

They talked on into the early morning, the high, pale cast of light in the windows, and they did not think of leaving.

One of life’s ironies is that the more honest and vulnerable you are, the more others try to discredit you as a fraud and a fake. Shut them up by not caring.

Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.

Every day is not perfect.

I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.

Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.

We just want to live a lovely life.

When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.