“I kept telling her that we can’t compare our relationship to the neighbors.”

Blessed to have my work feel like play.

My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I’m still a virgin in a lot of ways. I’m not used to being shot down for no reason.

Tokyo by night? Beautiful. Tokyo by Night Sight? Insane!

Love will have you making all sorts of stuff.

Don’t let failure go to your heart, and don’t let success go to your head.

Haters are the people who will broadcast your failures and whisper your success.

Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people – the ones who really belong in your life – will come to you. And Stay.

As I look at our world Today, I am deeply impelled to Action. The “call” has spoken to me and I will humbly, gratefully and aggressively respond.⁣

Somewhere along the way I started saying Happy Birthday to everyone else.

Life is lived on the edge.

I’d rather live my life knowing that I’m not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.

I want to take care of people. I want to help people. The maximum joy that I have is when I can create something that makes someone else’s life lighter, brighter, or better.

This piece is neither an endorsement nor an indictment of any leader, it’s just an open question!

You can spend a lot of time placing blame on others when you’re the only one standing in your way.

If you’re absent during my struggle, don’t expect to be present during my success.

Tease others the way you want to be teased!

If we are not comparing happiness then we should also not compare pain.

Comparison is a distraction from our inner creativity.⁣

Never compare yourself to anyone, everyone’s life is different, difficulties are different, the path is different.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

Comparison will only hinder your progress.

Love is like infinity: You can’t have more or less infinity, and you can’t compare two things to see if they’re “equally infinite.” Infinity just is, and that’s the way I think love is, too.

For today’s generation of blacks to act as if their struggle compares to that of two generations ago insults and diminishes that generation’s struggle.