What holds most people back isn't the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves.

Look at all the billionaires. If I know 15 billionaires, I know 13 unhappy people.

Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it's the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.

There is no happiness until the mind is still. The cause of all sickness and sadness is the fluctuation of the mind.

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

You know, sometimes people never get to learn how successful they could have been because they give up too easily. If I've learned one thing in all my years in the business, it's that often things don't work out the way you want at first. But that doesn't mean you should give up.

We want the government to be controlled by all the people, not by the richest 1%. That's always been the first demand. That's a simple enough message, and I think it's pretty clear now, even though much of the media has been disingenuous in its coverage. We don't want the heads of the biggest industries to make all the decisions, because they're not for the people. They're for the corporations. Power to the people!