When you accept that you may fail, you can accomplish anything.

You have to treat everyone you meet as if they are the most important person in the world - because they are. If not to you, then to someone; and if not today, then perhaps tomorrow.

GRIT is Guts, Resilience, Industriousness and Tenacity. GRIT is the ability to focus, stay determined, stay optimistic in the face of a challenge, and simply work harder than the next guy or gal.

As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.

When you accept that you may fail, you can accomplish anything. Fear can be so debilitating. Every day I'm faced with difficult decisions, but losing the fear helps me make the right choices.

Ubiquity is the new exclusivity.

She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.

But at the very moment she was thinking these thoughts, adventure, as she afterwards told my Mother, was stalking her.

Without hope there is no faith and without faith it is impossible to love. If we do not embrace love we cannot embrace hope and therefore have no purpose.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Performing was terrifying.

There's no guarantee that the United States will be around 200 years from now.

I still collect toys. Toys are a reflection of society. They are the tools that society uses to teach and enculturate children into the adult world. Toys are not innocent.

I like to stay within the context of the character's background. If he's a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun.

I'm interested in people that don't always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life.

We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And every so often, we shop because we need something to wear.