Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate...

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.

My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.

There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.

I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird.

I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.

When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.

This disease of curiosity.

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

I think that what a lot of people tell you, a lot of the job of the director is having an opinion about everything.

If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.

I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I used to always cry from loneliness.

Everybody's got somewhere they call home.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter.