Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, ….

Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day..

Film is such a powerful medium. It can really affect change; you can affect so many different people in different ways..

My parents are from a whole different culture. My parents are from small-town Louisiana. It's like, if it walk like a duck, talk like a duck, then it….

Presidents have to learn how to adapt. Every president comes into the job, it's different than they expect, they must adapt..

Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go..

Never point at anything beige and call it cool..

You've got to tell your money what to do or it will leave..

Leadership must be demonstrated, not announced..

You won't build relationships unless you let your guard down.

But possibly I am something more than I suppose myself to be..

One truly understands only what one can create..

I wouldn't go back and change anything..

To say a thing 'must be', is the very power that makes it..

That love has to always exist..

Rehabilitate the germs that cause bad breath..

More of me comes out when I improvise..

The new evangelization ... begins in the confessional..

Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth..

Let the beauty we love do what we do..

Everybody is somewhere..