“I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don’t discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that’s very telling.”

We made a plan at school to meet in her garage and kiss. It was like this little business deal. I kissed her and then I ran home

I’ve always believed happiness is overrated, you know? It’s those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it’s a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses.

I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven’t known life to be any happier.

The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much [marijuana].

I’m drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

You can’t trap justice. It’s an idea, a belief.

Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I’ll trade wisdom for youth any day.

Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I’ll trade wisdom for youth any day.

Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I’ll trade wisdom for youth any day.

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

I don’t want to die without scars.

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you’re figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it’s not worth doing – it’s already done. I’m interested in finding people who I think have a voice – and a very specific voice.

I don’t want to die without scars.

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.

Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength.

Work for that feeling that you have accomplished something, Don’t waste your time on this earth without making a mark.

Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it. SZA

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.