I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.

Hands have their own language.

For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re not the first to die.

I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

This guilt is a joke, and it’s exhausting to watch you martyr yourself.

The time will come when you will be forced to make a choice,” Hanalea said. “When that time comes, choose love.

Compassion comes from the heart, not the government.

If you can talk about it, why paint it?

Examine what you do and examine what other women do. Examine the dreams that men hold of you and how they force you in a corner, literally and figuratively.

Wow, I do have all day and I get to choose.

I just loved the whole idea of being an actor.

I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God.

The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans.

I like all kinds of movies, I love movies; and I always wanted to try and make one.