That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair.

I was not the kid that hung out at the arcade.

No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.

You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a good day after all.

I just had to be strong enough to allow myself to be vulnerable. Great Lesson. For art and for life.

You just have to decide how close you want them. Not every person in your life needs to be your best friend: some can be friends or just friendly acquaintances.

Along time ago I asked myself do I want to be right or do I want to be kind; I opted for kind.

I try not to plan ahead. I just kind of try to think in the moment. I always believe everything will work out the way it's supposed to.

Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.

I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

But I don't feel like dealing because dealing requires too much energy, and energy is what I lack.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.

We'd be happy to have more fair treatment in the media, but I'm not going to find unicorns on my doorstep tomorrow.

Everything's funny - in the right context and done by the right person.

Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.

Tradition does not mean to look after the ash, but to keep the flame alive.

Focus on fruitful relationships that bring you closer to Jesus Christ.

There is nothing scary about life if you are not attached to results.

In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.