All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.

Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

But you knoe, she's right. Every single day, each time I see her face, see her, it's utterly precious.

Heaven is a big place, honey. I don't know every dead person.''They'd probably be in hell anyway.

Biting's excellent. It's like kissing - only there is a winner.

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

It would have been nice if both players had maybe shaken hands with each other

I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never end.

While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power.

What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?

I think for a lot of people that had seen me do Snabba Cash, after watching The Killing, I think they got a sense that I could do different kinds of characters.

Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow.