Life has a way of doing that; one minute everything makes sense, the next, things change. People get sick. Families break apart, your friends could close the door on you.

This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.

There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.

You are bigger than your circumstances.

One point of view gives a one dimensional world.

I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it.

If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.

Life takes on the meaning that you give it.

Success creates opportunities for other people.

It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.

There's nothing I can do to erase the shadow of misery and despair from the eyes looking back at me from the photos [that I took in Afghanistan].

As I watched the sun began its daily routine, casting golden hue and illuminating cities, I wondered, “what an exemplary way to start my daily routine?

We tend to seek closure and completeness.

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I've been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.

The days of hair tonics have long since passed.

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.

You reach a certain point in your 30s when you say things in a much safer way.

I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.