The gossamer web of life, spun on the loom of sunlight from the breath of an infant Earth, is nature's crowning achievement on this planet.

One amino acid does not a protein make-let alone a being.

Bad weather never stopped anyone from reaping a good harvest.

The Dark Powers have to give before they can take.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.

Whenever we do something for someone else, we affirm that we are not simply in it for ourselves, that our self is someone else, is everyone else.

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

I feel like I barely survived Django (Unchained) emotionally - the violence, hearing the N-word every day. It cost me a lot psychologically, but it was worth it to tell that story.

It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.

Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them

Passion makes the will lord of the reason.