Frankly I like the fact that I no longer fit the young beauty type-people take me more seriously now.

We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.

If you're considered a beauty it's hard to be accepted doing anything but standing around.

I'll always push the envelope. To me the ultimate sin in life is to be boring. I don't play it safe.

Since he'd stepped out of medical school, all he'd ever done was fulfil the same three basic templates, again and again and again. The possibility of infinite variation had led only to convergence.

Tall, elegant, vital, scornful. A man like that could rock a woman to her very core.

Why tomorrow when there is today?

I am a self-appointed ambassador for poetry.

To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.

What would your head have been doing in Hogsmeade, Potter?" said Snape softly. "Your head is not allowed in Hogsmeade. No part of your body has permission to be in Hogsmeade.

The wonderful thing about sound is that it is invitational, so ultimately each person is going to find their own relation to the material.

If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.

Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.

I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.