I believe that miracles happen every day. Every person is a miracle. Every moment is a miracle. If only we can open our eyes, we'll see God's love everywhere.

Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer. It's so hard for government planners, no matter how sophisticated, to ever substitute for millions of individuals working night and day to make their dreams come true. The fact is, bureaucracies are a problem around the world.

When I taught art, I was always asked, 'How do you know you're an artist? What makes you an artist?' And to me, it's like breathing. You don't question if you breathe; you have to breathe. So if you wake up in the morning, and you have to realize an idea, and there's another idea, and another, maybe you are really an artist.

I walked into this industry blond with red lips, and I will leave this industry blond with red lips. Mark my words.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

The issue of race is not an issue of choice. It's an issue of birth.

Films were always a passion for me but it was when I saw 'Salaam Bombay' that I decided that it was film direction that I was interested in. That is when I decided I wanted to direct films.

It's so easy to be boxed into one part and one part only.

All of us are born with certain gifts, and the secret to success is figuring out what your gift is and using it in a way that benefits others.

What I want to represent for my daughters is that you can always stay true to yourself and still be successful.

The wisdom of God is so great that He also knows exactly what I would think and do under every possible circumstance and situation, and he placed me in that state of life and situation best suited for my salvation.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.