Being kind is more important than being right.
If I go as hard as I can in practice, make sure it's a lot harder than than a fight, then the fight's going to be easy.
You never know yourself until the chips are down. True strength is not measured when your at your strongest, but when you’re at your weakest.
We are all fighters, every single person who walks this earth is a fighter, everything that lives. To live is to fight. And we just fight in different arenas.
All the trials and tribulations have paid off. In life, you have setbacks. . . When you're in your valley, that's when you're tested the most -not when you're at your peak.
I am a student of whoever I can learn from. I don't see myself in position like I'm above anybody else and I can never learn, or no one can ever teach me anything. You learn a lot from guys who are just starting off sometimes.
My mother is my hero just because, what life becomes about is overcoming adversity, and I watched her overcome so many things in life but still able to smile. See it's one thing to overcome adversity and to be scarred and to carry that with you but when you have somebody overcomes adversity and they're still able to smile that's something else. That's true strength.
Martin Freeman as [Bilbo] is just a revelation.
One day, right after my mastectomy, I went for a walk in Central Park, and there was this mob of people blocking the road. I thought, 'Oh, great, now I'm stuck!' but then I suddenly realized that it was a breast cancer walk.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to Being and remain open to its often unfathomable dictates. This is the only way the work can transcend its creator and radiate its meaning. . .