For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.

Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.

I've always tried to do my very best, and I want to be the very best age, whatever age I am.

Age is such a natural progression you shouldn't fight it.

The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke.

Great stories changed our heart and penetrated our soul.

We like who we become in response to injustice: it makes it easy to choose a side. Our capacity to care, to get angry, is called forth like some muscle we weren't entirely aware we had.

There was a military police brigade with over 3, 400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.

One of the hardest things to do when you launch a channel is find a voice.

Buddhism teaches us not to want things, not to avoid things, not to be upset by the loss. In the I Ching, there's a hexagram that says, "Be like the sun at midday". View all things as being equal.

Money is like a mirror to our culture. What we see tells us who we are.

A door jumps out from shadows, then jumps away. This is what I've come to find: the back door, unlatched. Tooled by insular wind, it slams and slams without meaning to and without meaning.

Every one of my books had killed me a little more.

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.

When the balance is broken then everything includes itself in power, power into will, will into appetite. So appetite, aided by will and power, becomes a universal wolf, at last eating up itself.