Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

When God requires us to surrender one dream, it’s because He wants to hand us a bigger and better one.

Newt Gingrich called it [Donald] Trump's biggest mistake since he won the election, these crazy accusations about voter fraud.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.

Just when I thought you couldn't get any dumber, you go and do something like this... and totally redeem yourself!

There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.

I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

It's a very beneficial experience for me that America has started to be interested in me. I get offers here, and I'm very open to having a new spring in my career here.

Without the word dream, or the concept dream, and without the word blue and the emotions, I would have been really limited in the things I've written and performed.