Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.

When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.

I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.

Everything, no matter how beautiful, is only with us for awhile.

The principle virtue of anyone who made an important invention is curious persistence.

The more you pray, the more you are stating your desire to live your life by God’s standards.

Watching a movie for the first time is a flirt. Rewatching it, is a date.

texan starting eternity: I never dreamed heaven would be so much like Texas. companion: Who said this was heaven?

You can't manage [country] the way you would manage a family business.

It's hard to top what you see in the film, they were just such a great group of people to work with and we all hung out in between scenes and I got to know everybody a little bit.

We have a right to expect a police force that protects our citizens and behaves in a responsible manner... in the American conscience there is no room for bigotry and racism.

You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

Yoga has spread harmony between man and nature. It is a holistic approach to health and wellbeing.