I think the hardest obstacles, actually, are probably ones I've put on myself. I push myself really hard, and I think that's why I've been able to accomplish certain things.

I'm a big thinker, and sometimes I think too much, and my brain can get in the way of myself.

Life is too short to be doing work that doesn't make you feel happy and fulfilled. I'd rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me.

If my body needs something, I need to give it that.

At some point, we all have to let go.

Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.

I always - I knew from day one , in college, that I wanted to be a teacher .But I don't think I had envisioned becoming a professor at the time. I remained a history major until 1951.

According to the international organization for migration, more than 1 million migrants have arrived in Europe this year, the most since World War II. Half of them were Syrian.

Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.

Your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him.

The more neurosis the more wisdom.

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

I hesitate to direct even though I feel I contribute a lot on a set.