Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.

When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

Perception can be one-sided or variant: "Glass half empty or half full." There usually is more than one way of perceiving. Thoroughly check your inner dialogue.

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.

I'm adopted, so I didn't know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall.

A productive marriage requires falling in enjoy numerous occasions, usually with the identical man or woman.

Even a bad idea executed is better than a good idea undone.

We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards.

The one thing that's hurt in my career is people saying I don't want to come out of Manchester to fight people.

I don't look like I've been on a week long crack binge with Amy Winehouse.

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

I was definitely an extroverted personality at a young age and theater was an outlet for me to channel that energy.