Just because the kid's cute, doesn't mean you're not the father.

Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - the ones who really belong in your life - will come to you. And Stay.

I do not have to build a perfect wall today. I just have to lay a perfect brick.

I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

You can cry, ain't no shame in it.

When I was young, and I'd get A's, I'd get this good feeling of all the things that I could be. And then I'd never became any of them.

I consider myself an alchemist. An alchemist is basically a mystical chemist, right? And one of the great feats that alchemists used to do is they would take lead - just take a chunk of lead - and they could turn lead into gold.