Oprah Winfrey

Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.

All the books I was reading as a teenager were about individuals having adventures. So I thought that was what writers were supposed to do: to go out on the road.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.