“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.”

Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t do something. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. When people can’t do something themselves, they are going to tell you that you can’t do it.

Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.

If you don’t believe in yourself, how can you expect anyone else to?? You are your own worst enemy! Once you overcome yourself, then no one can stop you.

I’m motivated by fear. Fear of fear. I hate being scared to do something. And I think what developed in my early days was the attitude that I started attacking things that I was scared of.

In my mind, I’ve always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y’all just didn’t know yet.

I’ve always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

The love and trust your kids have for you is something beautiful.

The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.

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

Bend the universe to your Will.

The women who don’t seek attention are usually the women you need to be giving your attention to.

You can cry, ain’t no shame in it.

Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.

10 ways to love: listen, speak, give, pray, answer, share, enjoy, trust, forgive, promise.

Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear, to hide every pain.

Music choice on point though.

Music took me from a real dark place to a real bright one.

Dazed and disoriented, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm – into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires.

May the world be a brighter place. Be the light.

Stars shine brighter when nights are darker and life flourishes most when the rain is heavier.

I don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.

That’s what people are who have that impact on us. They are ahead of their time. They can’t help it. They get put into a small, frail body, and they are given a light that is much too bright for that cavity.

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.

“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.