The world has been taught to be scared of him, but the reality is that he is scared of the world because he has none of the tools necessary to cope with it.

Relationships are built in the silences.

Learn from your past and be better because of your past, but don't cry about your past. Life is full of pain. Let the pain sharpen you, but don't hold on to it. Don't be bitter.

We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.

It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.

That was my mom. Don't fight the system. Mock the system.

But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to.

The tricky thing about the hood is that you’re always working, working, working, and you feel like something’s happening, but really nothing’s happening at all.

You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad. Where you either hate them or love them. But that's not how people are.

In society, we do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. We don’t see their face. We don’t see them as people.

In any society built on institutionalized racism, race-mixing doesn't merely challenge the system as unjust, it reveals the system as unsustainable and incoherent.

The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it.

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.

It was fun to be clever.

The end we know not; but we wander on, Down the regretful wilderness of time.

There has to be some certainty about who the leader is before the summer break.

On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Directive Number 21, better known as Operation Barbarossa.

You have different people who come into your life and they affect you in a way and leave an impact on you. Whether it's projects or friends or directors, it's just an opportunity that people give me.

I can't believe I am hosting the Oscars. It's an honor everyone else said no.

Every rep I did on chin-ups, on squats with 500 pounds, I never said, to myself, 'Oh, my God, another rep.' I said, 'Yes, another rep, because that will make my dream turn into a reality.'

I suppose my understanding of villains is that they're just people who are infected by all of the darker instincts - that they haven't got the discipline to make the right choices.