And you asked why people always expected you to smile in photographs. And I told you it was because they hoped that in the future, there would be something to smile about.

Because I found the strength to do the things I believe in, and the will to stop doing the things I don't believe in.So I have discovered what it means, to be at peace.

The things you struggle with today are the things you choose to struggle with.Because you believe that what you want to accomplish, is worth struggling for.

If love and beauty were easy to find, they would not exist.Chaos and sadness exist in order for you to find the love and beauty in them. So that love and beauty mean something.It's meant to be hard.

You are the silence between the notes. The white space between the letters. The missing that makes everything else a something.

She gives me the finger and turns back around. "Did you see that?" I flinch at the gesture. "That is completely illegal in here.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.

20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.

Admitting your weaknesses does not diminish your strengths: it shows your courage.

I'm interested in making films that ask questions and don't particularly provide answers.

Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.

Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.

Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.