A man is what he thinks about all day long. 

When you know better you do better.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

To those who are given much, much is expected.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come.

I know why the caged bird sings.

Nothing will work unless you do.

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

Let us strive for the impossible. The great achievements throughout history have been the conquest of what seemed the impossible.

You’ll never find rainbows if you’re looking down.

“She didn’t put her finger to the wind; she became the wind.” 

“Without leaps of the imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning” 

“I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.”

“I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.”

“I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.”

“I'm not focused on what other people think of me.”

If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.

To those who voted for me, thank you. And to those who didn't, better luck next year!”

For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.”

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.”

We change people's lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing that holds humanity in place, in an otherwise constantly shifting and, let's face it, tiny outcrop in the middle of an infinity of nowhere.”