The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Cultivating spiritual intimacy is essential for leaders to live a vibrant missional life.

We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.

Even though college has been hard, I don't want to give up.

I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor.

Definition of responsibility: a commitment of the head, heart, and hands to fix the problem and never again affix blame.

Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something unique and powerful to say to us about what it's like to be alive.

I think you take a job, you owe it as much passion as the job itself demands. And most jobs demand that you be totally committed.

A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.

Seek the best in everyone that you meet. Seek the worst when dealing with yourself.

Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.