Beauty was all I’d ever cared for. It was all that ever moved me.

Old soul cries through the tears of a newborn

We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.

Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.

If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.

All the days that you wake up you have one job and that's to get better, every single day.

I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.

Churches are healthier and stronger if they assume responsibility both for financing their own programs and for stimulating their members to accept that responsibility.

Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know

The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.

My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.