I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.

Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.

isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.

I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.

Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher some spiritual hero.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

I don't know what 'famous' is, really.

Leaders love progress.

George Clooney is great. He's incredibly prepared and he attracts a tremendously talented crew, which says a lot for him personally and professionally.

If you talking 'bout classics, do my name get brought up?

I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.

The technology itself is not transformative. It's the school, the pedagogy, that is transformative.

It's quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can't imagine what else I could do beyond this. It's really a bittersweet kind of feeling.

When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'