That's the thing about the writer's life is that you have to have self-discipline. Otherwise you'll never get paid.

What I need more in my culture and in my life right now is hope, and so I tend to write to that. I'll always end up bending more toward optimism.

As my contribution as an artist and a storyteller, I have to have some hope. I have to have some beacon of good at the end of it.

Studios are mercurial kind of creatures. A lot of the times getting a movie out can be as much luck as anything else.

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand.

My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

I had to learn how to trust the Lord. My faith muscles grew. Just like, you're exercising your muscles and they may be sore for a while, but they become stronger with exercise.

Let God's promises shine on your problems.

When you know that you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer.

...we’re just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places.

There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.

I'm sick of environmentalism.