Karaoke is the great equalizer.

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.

Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.

When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.

When you stop complaining about others for not helping you and focus on your efforts

If you understand this basic concept, it becomes clear that every spending decision is a spiritual decision. Waste, for example, is not a squandering of our resources. It is a poor use of His.

You can't truly, deeply and sustainably motivate anybody until you know what their motives are - what motivates them...?

Physician heal thyself.

I think the challenges that come with the responsibility of art directing something is something that appeals to me.

My flesh looked like it wasn't trying. It looked like it hated being part of me.

There's never been a particular band that I've followed religiously. But I do tend to listen to sadder music.

There's no accepted global policy on what to do about asteroid impacts.

There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.