You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

I'm a little bit antisocial and I recently discovered that I'm introverted. But the love between people makes me alive.

Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.

I see people whose spirits are not broken, who continue to work for justice. That makes me feel alive, when I witness their work, and then I witness some of their dreams come to fruition.

Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free.

The prize is always worth the rocky ride.

Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.

It's in our blind trust that love will find us, just like it has before.

You set up your place in my thoughts, moved in and made my thinking crowded.

Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.

This is one reason people need to believe in God—because we want someone to know us, truly, all the way through, even the worst of us.

As a scientist I have come to learn that information isonly as valuable as its source.

If somebody had told me that you have a choice of being a rock star or playing left field for the Tigers, there would not have been a choice at all. I would have said, 'Where's my locker?'

With out passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing.

I've never credited myself with a professional life. But, basically, it has been that.

I cannot take every case that people ask me to take.

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

If you can't read the scoreboard. You don't know the score. If you don't know the score, you can't tell the winners from the losers.