Each person has a literature inside them.

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

Leaders believe that falling is not failing, but refusal to rise up after falling is the real form of failure!

Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.

My Brother went to college To become a doctor And if he studies hard enough He'll end up just like papa, who hates his life.

I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is going to be helpful.

What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Suffer all, and conquer all.

Still, life carries on. Exams to be examined. Serious things to be thingied.

Christ offers us the incredible opportunity to trade temporary goods and currency for eternal rewards.

Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge.