"You serve your people by leading them to excellence. That's leadership."

“Your aspirations are your possibilities.”

“Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait. God will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate with Him.”

“People watch me when I get into these characters that I have in my head, so perhaps I should try acting. So I did.”

Source : "'Star Wars: The Force Awakens': Forget the clones... Meet John Boyega, the one-of-a-kind stormtrooper". Interview with Anthony Breznican, ew.com. April 26, 2015.

“Photography is just light remembering itself.”

“The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons... The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in the future are frightening. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.”

“If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.”

“So thoughtless awareness is the first beautiful state you have to achieve. That will give you peace and a witness state to enjoy the drama of life, to enjoy the different varieties of people, while you will be growing within yourself.”

“Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had.”