If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

Sundance is weird. The movies are weird - you actually have to think about them when you watch them.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.

Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us - loneliness is one of them.

I don't want to name my fandom, I want them to name themselves. If I'm cool with it, I'm cool with it.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.

Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.

Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I'm sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows.

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.

You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.

The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.

I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.

I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

No, we don't own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.

I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.

The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed armless children.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

As for body-shaming, there will always be people who will love chubby people and those who will dislike them.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.

French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

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