I still feel like I have a lot to prove. My biggest burning question is 'How much more are you capable of?'

Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.

I think happiness is what makes you pretty.

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.

I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

Is there a war on cops? Is there a war on the Black man? Who is going to call a cease fire?

Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that I hope to make pictures that are timeless.

Be hald, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all. There are to decline your nectared wine, But all you must drink life's gall.

The successful writer listens to himself.

What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our time, but have been lived, used by what we do?

I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes.