Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we can do best.

My only armor is my belief that life has meaning...

So many things in my continuing education are learned by going where I have to go and doing what I have to do. Therefore, my only answer is: "I guess I'll find out.

She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable adversity, and that inspires me.

We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure.

She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it is perhaps the best of graces: to feel deeply, to care profoundly.

...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.

But the universe in its immensity is nevertheless of a piece, and what applies at one end of it applies at the other. No doubt misery, like happiness and hope, is found throughout the stars.

Let go of yesterday, you made it! Don't use yesterday's state of mind to make today's decisions.

As Christmas draws near, let the words resonate — not just within your heart & mind, but Soul.

I haven't devoured a soul in...What month is this? March?

I don't like it when people ask actors to work for free - on the fringe - as if it's some kind of virtue. That annoys me - actors should be paid well.

Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may; or, by this time, try though he doesn't.

That's one of those hazards of an interview: You get tired of your stock answer and you try to get creative and even play devil's advocate.

The children don't wear their masks at home and in controlled surroundings.

When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.

The best long range shotgun load to have in one's boat for mallards is a fine retriever.

We invent our technologies and then we turn around and use our technologies to reinvent ourselves as individuals, communities and cultures.