History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

I thought of Shelley in the hospital, how she said sometimes sadness only looked like anger and judgment. Maybe fear did too.

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.

I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.

Day and night, Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.

The work element comes into it as well - how much you train and how much work you put into your craft, in the same way a carpenter would perhaps work under a great teacher, etc.

The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.

I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way - I just feel good in my skin.

How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.