Your life is a work of art that you will work on the rest of your life.

Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.

We have always been searching for home. It's in our art... our religion... everything.

Artists are the emotional historians of the world.

As an immigrant, there's a little part of you that always says, "Well, I'm not a hundred percent American." America is some other little boy or some other place I haven't been to yet.

What was transformative was being at the inauguration, reading my poem, and realizing that the quest for home and identity had always been part of my work, but that I'd been home all along.

That wasn't love

Replace dabbling with laser-beamfocus on something important.

People maybe smiling but look to the eyes because they can’t hide the sorrow, pain, and heartache they're trying to hide behind their smile.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.

We must not pull away from our children. We must keep trying, keep reaching, keep praying, keep listening. We must keep them within the clasp of our arms.

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.

I think that it’s fearless to fall for your best friend, even though he’s in love with someone else.

As far as I'm concerned, the coolest word in film is 'cult.'