If anyone ever said biopic I would say, "It's not a biopic. " We're fighting uphill against the weight of history. I was like, why don't we just call it historical fiction?
Your life is the sum total of all your choices up to this present minute.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?
It doesn't matter where you came from, it doesn't matter how poor you are, it doesn't matter where your family was. It all doesn't matter. You can achieve anything if you have really clear goals and if you work really hard to learn what you need to learn.
The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.
Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.
Take a deep breath, relax and imagine yourself exactly as you wish to be.
I'll experience vulnerability when I just don't have any more to give.
I am invisible in gay bars.
The human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.
The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.