An ideal's love-fraught, imperious call That bides the spheres become articulate.

One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.

The little Road says, Go; The little House says, Stay; And oh, it's bonny here at home, But I must go away.

Youth condemns maturity condones.

Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.

I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design.

Toastmasters changed my life. They really did. Put me on the stage. I don’t know what I would have done without that positive boost.

Oh, it's the first big thing I've really done. My first job out of college was working with Steven Soderbergh. I was telling my acting teachers, "I did it, you guys!"

None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.

Artists draw for themselves, If someone draws for them, theyre not an artist. An artist is someone who makes their own music and albums. Artist think music is a drawing, and they draw theirs.

Dumb animals we call them, while they bark and neigh and moo. They talk as much as we do - to them we seem dumb too.

Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.

I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.

When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.