Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.

Sometimes taking a first step is the biggest and most important journey of them all.

Fear would have told the Wright brothers not to fly. Fear would have told Rosa Parks to change seats. Fear would have told Steve Jobs that people hate touchscreens.

Bullies enjoy dark happiness; these are the blank parts that eventually fill their minds with nothingness.

The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, "Whom will we serve?

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

Faithfulness is a social not a biological law.

There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire.

It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need.

The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.

I think that layers in music, whether it's layers juxtaposing emotions and feelings or layers of texture, make for a more interesting product.

There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.