Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for 22 minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after 30 seconds.

Good leaders are always at the ready, but not always at the front.

So I just keep asking myself, ‘Can you love someone who did bad things? Can you still love them?’

I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead–if you strike oil.

I just think we tear down women in this country for all these superficial reasons, and women are so great and strong.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

You don’t take a photograph, you make it.

This recent calling out of sexual assault has been a long time coming. And it's good. It's like cutting out tumors: it's messy, and it's complicated and it is going to hurt. But it's necessary. And we'll all be healthier for it. And it sucks — and some of our heroes will be taken down, and we will discover bad things about people we like. And sometimes, even people we love.