Beauty has a persuasive power all its own.

Blackmailers never explain their thinking. They're like pirates that way. Dark-hearted, dangerous--- and cool like Johnny Depp.

You know, sometimes you've got to trust the people you love. You've got to trust that if they're good people, they'll make good decisions.

You can always tell how a man will treat his wife by the way he treats his mother.

Sometimes animals are more human than people and other times people are more animal than animals

Short wins does not guarantee long victories.

The evolution of animal behavior does constitute a learning process, but it is learning by the species, not by the individual, and the fruits of this learning process are encoded in DNA.

[Lauren Ambrose's] character [in Can't Hardly Wait] feels real and unexaggerated and becomes sort of a heroine archetype. I think that was cool. It wasn't in every one of those comedies.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone it out.

A wing or a thigh? Ah, I'm afraid we don't have any thighs left.

I'm not rich and maybe I'll never be rich. Money is useful - yes - but I don't worship it.

The cross is bigger than your mistakes, bigger than your regrets, bigger than the secrets you hold. The cross stands above it all.

A triune God would call us to converse with him . . . because he wants to share the joy he has. Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself.