Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by.

Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.

It was a dark and stormy night.

Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

I was very lucky - it wasn't a question of being wealthy my father was just extremely lucky with the couple of jobs he got. So we got a chance to travel when nobody else could travel.

Unlike Hillary Clinton, who voted for the war without knowing what she was doing, I would not have had our people in Iraq. Iraq was disaster.

If I were to pick a language to use today other than Java, it would be Scala

People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.

I did my first movie,a movie called Whiffs, which very few people ever saw.

If people just put away what's left at the end of the month, that's a recipe for failure.

We can only learn from mistakes, by identifying them, determining their source, and correcting them... people learn more from their own mistakes than from the successes of others.

I love our industry. I love the song. I love the voice. I love it. Not necessarily my voice. But I care about the song and the voice.