When I'm the person in front of the microphone, and I'm the person in the light, I want to reflect and refract the light onto places where they need the attention, where I don't need it.

I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.

I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.

Every time I've learned something, I've realized there are a hundred more things I don't know about the thing I just learned.

Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.

Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.

It's important to keep the people who know you well around you. It helps center you.

We're really trying to give people the ability to go into a darkened room and have a couple hours of just pure enjoyment.

If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem.

One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.

I told you that I would protect you. Even if you don't want me to, " he whispered, moving closer and pulling me against him. "Some things are worth protecting

Luxury life is good if everyman living on earth can benefit from it! Otherwise, it is injustice!

I loved her laugh. It was bubbly and girlish, and it made me want to pick her up, put her in my pocket, and carry her around with me just so I could hear it all the time.

I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives.

Two men look out the same prison bars one sees mud and the other stars.

I supported the Iraq resolution, but that was not an approval of war in Iraq and certainly was not approval for an occupation of Iraq.

I think in losing we find out who that person really is.

We find it difficult to choose our direction because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.

ONCE UPON A TIME when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith.Valentine Michael Smith was as real as taxes but he was a race of one.

Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.