You're supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it's an agreeable tiredness.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.

The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

Life is a disease.

Learn from your history, but don’t live in it.

A guy should make the woman he is dating feel different and more special than anyone else in his life

In Congress, I was a relentless advocate for fiscal responsibility.

I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.

I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.

I grew up in front of a television. I guess I'll grow old inside of one.

Don't mess with the dead, boy, they have eerie powers.

An act of evil is the death of wonder

To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs.

Maybe dark matter is denser than we usually assume, kind of like the Milky Way plane.