Because friendship is about laughing when the other person is joking to make you feel better. Even if you don’t find her joke all that funny.

I can dance beauty into my body

You don't have to climb ladders to reach God. He dances within all He creates.

I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old.

The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded each sacrifice is made up every debt is paid.

Blaming the woman for the loss of a child is like blaming the soldier for the loss of his life in battle.

I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.

There is a 3rd point of view on the gun control issue - those who I refer to as THE VICTIMS - but they remain strangely silent.

Look, I'm an actor, I don't profess to understand much of anything

The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.

The secret of our success on planet Earth is space. Lots of it. Our solar system is a tiny island of activity in an ocean of emptiness.

Writing's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

I'm so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.