Death smells like homemade applesauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling scent of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.

We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.

People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them they are us.

I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.

Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

Beating children will not make them wise. They will grow wilder and wilder and the cane will feel like paper on their skins.

Born from sea foam high up to the tops of the waves on the trail of love.

To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community.

In uplifting get underneath.

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present".

The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are

With Late Night Show I can begin the search for the real Stephen Colbert.I just hope I don't find him on Ashley Madison.

I actually had a movie green lit at Disney the same week 'Burlesque' was green lit - a movie for Disney called 'Mash-Up', about a high school marching band.

Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa.