Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. Its how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

Our thoughts are to the individual as our art is to the community.

That is the heart and soul of the American dream, homeownership, the idea of being able to buy a house and start to build your family.

We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.

The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

One of the richest countries in the history of the world having communities where people have to go over half an hour to get to fresh produce and food is unacceptable.

There's no greater honor, as an actor, to be a part of a project that changes lives, and awakens and enlightens and entertains.

What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.

Art imitating life and life imitating art, and it's beyond the job - it will always be a marked period in my life.

Stories work, if they have a beginning, middle and end.

There's more to stories than it seems at first looking, " she said. "Two sides to most stories. Folks better be thinking about that for once.

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

There is hope. There is hope everywhere. Today God give milk and I have the pail.

The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno.

A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.

The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life).

Hope is born again in the faces of children.

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.

The less Hillary Clinton speaks, the less she's seen, the higher her numbers go.

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.