Everything really is beautiful if you choose to see it that way.

In a world full of people, only some want to fly. Isn't that crazy?

What I love most about fatherhood is the opportunity to be a part of the development process of a new life.

Life is short. Life is uncertain. But we know that we have today. And we have each other. I believe that for each of us, there is a place on the frontlines.

We're never gonna survive unless we go a little crazy.

Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.

There's nothing better than going out there and performing and making that connection with audiences. Even after all this time I get the biggest buzz from that.

Alone, human beings can feel hunger. Alone, we can feel cold. Alone, we can feel pain. To feel poor, however, is something we do only in comparison to others.

We want to be in a situation under maximum pressure, maximum intensity, and maximum danger. When it's shared with others, it provides a bond which is stronger than any tie that can exist.

Packing is my pet hate.

I believe that our society is merely a reflection of what is going on inside each and every one of us.

And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Veep is the best and most realistic political TV show out there.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her.

Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.

While all the future, for thy purer soul, With "sober certainties" of love is blest.