Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

May I forget what ought to be forgotten and recall unfailing all that ought to be recalled each kindly thing forgetting what might sting.

Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.

Guys like Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Sacha Baron Cohen, they do things you love to watch. I like to do the other half.

Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

When we complain about our current situation, we remain in it; when we praise God in the midst of difficulty, He raises us out of it.

I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.

I am in a lot of pain. They say it is more pain than when you have a baby but I don't know as I have not had one. It is not possible.

What is it about silence that makes people uneasy?

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

What defines you as a person is not the life you were born in to, but what you made of it.