Perhaps the only real failure is that implying waste a conscious and flagrant non-use or misuse of ability.

The ocean does not lose its splendor because it lost a few drops.

I know there are powers I can't discern and things that bend and shape us that we cannot see.

Was she happy? She thought – yes, reasonably so. Then again, what was happiness but the vast terrain between ecstasy and agony? Was this too small an ambition?

What people see you do may not be remembered

I think you're just always trying to find really great, interesting female roles. That's the thing for me. You do have to think about what you're signing up for.

Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of life, but that he has surmounted them.

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child

Do something bad a thousand times and it's no big deal. Everyone just goes, "Willie f - up again."