The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.

No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.

What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.

You can't eat beauty, it doesn't sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty inflamed the heart and merchants the soul.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.

What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.

There is no shame in black beauty.

You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.

Here was a Jewish man-turned-woman making fun of Jewish men for not being manly enough.

Comic timing... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are.

If football was a drug, I would have died from overdose.

He would have been handsome—in a serial-killer kind of way—if not for those tattoos.

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Worry is not thought; complaining is not action.

It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union and Liberty.

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

My father mainly liked writers. His friends were writers. He wanted to find the writing. That was his main frustration I think.