But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.

There's not a lot of money in revenge.

[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it." -- William Styron (born June 11 1925)

You lost my interest, you aren't a nice guy and very nasty guy.

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Time is a kindly god.

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness

I do think that exercise is important, not only to keep you in shape but also for your state of mind. However, I am not fanatical about it.

A pacifist has a lot of difficulty reconciling pacifism with scripture.

You treat me like a dog and you expect me to smile? You remind me of a jackass.