Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

Pakistan is not a unified country.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

We are moving towards a world that is reordering itself and that may appear more ordered at some periods of time, but I see no sign that we are moving towards a world order in my definition of it – namely, a system which is accepted, which is internalized by the majority of the key participants.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

There’s no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

I’m happy to be a writer – of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn’t a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

El Salvador is a democracy so it’s not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans… I have heard a single voice.

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

‚Soul Plane‘ put me in a position to succeed. I’m glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

When I see a story, I ask: is this something I’d like to be in? Is this something I’d like to see? And if I’d like to see it, would I like to tell it?

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

I would venture to guess that the biggest reason creative types don’t produce isn’t because they don’t have vision… or talent… in most cases, it’s a lack of discipline.

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you’d rather be in.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Don’t be too harsh to these poems until they’re typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.