If some people say what is in their hearts and other people say what glides easily off the tongue, how can we talk to one another?

The present is all we have, yet it is the one thing we will never learn to hold in our hands.

I wondered: what happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?

How does a copy become more than a copy? Is art the creation of something new and original, or simply the continuous enlargement, or the distillation, of an observation that came before

The only life that matters is in your mind. The only truth is the one that lives invisibly, that waits even after you close the book. Silence, too, is a kind of music. Silence will last.

The young man murmured in his sleep and said, “Dear Sparrow, ” and Sparrow felt, for the first time, how the purest joy could be a heaviness.

I know that throughout my life I have struggled to forgive my father. Now, as I get older, I wish most of all that he had been able to find a way to forgive himself.

I've got nothing to offer you kids but these noodles. They're good noodles but they won't change the world.

She had to force herself to ‘get on with it’ or she would build a wall in her way so fast she would never get past it.

I hope you still dream when your eyes aint closed." -song:"As I Walk

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.

Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?

People looking into Barack Obama's campaign contributions say that Obama may have received $3.3 million from abroad. Yeah. It turns out that broad is Oprah Winfrey.

No one can take away your right to fight and never surrender.

There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do.

I think every actor is looking for a challenge, and to play something different, and to be a part of a project with other great actors.

Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other.

Twitter is about creating whatever persona you want to create and either sticking with it or changing it or evolving it or contradicting it, and I've done all that stuff.