I couldn't guarantee that someone could get off their medication. But I suspect that meditation instead of Ritalin would change the life of any kid w….

Less bitching...more learning..

There's not a word in the Quran or the Hadith that requires that women cover their faces. To the contrary, the only requirement is that they uncover ….

The transitional period was tough, I won't kid you. You go from a certain family dynamic to adjusting to a completely new one. It took a few months f….

We can defer, yet time is most certainly not..

As George Costanza would say, when they're applauding, stop..

When you create a movie, you create something in your image..

We cannot work for others without working for ourselves..

Usually when a woman is 60, it's over..

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: th….

When I was a kid, I was very much interested in magic and science. They fueled interest in one another..

To me, love has always meant friendship..

Kids coming from very difficult economic circumstances in urban areas are in some ways discriminated against in ways that are similar to the way peop….

Then why don't you go and ---- yourself..

We Learn about love by loving..

The history of lead is a history of neglect. It's a history of decisions on our part not to address the broad implications of what we did to ourselve….

I'm unshockable, fortunately -- or unfortunately..

You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's..

I went to school with a kid who was so smart, the only time he got an answer wrong, they had to go back and change the question..

We separated like oil and water. In the cafeteria, you'd see a table of black jocks, table of white jocks, table of rich white kids, table of Hispani….

You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where….