Don't let where you are in life to cause you to be so insecure about yourself. There is more to you than your flaws and negative conditions. You are a royal child of God.

Instead of saying they rose all the way to the top, we should say they learned all the way to the top.

The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .

God has a program of character development for each of us. He wants others to look at our lives and say, He walks with God, for he lives like Christ.

I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.

Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.

I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults.

What transpires for the least significant member transpires at once for the whole.

Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

I guess what I get excited about when I'm thinking about projects is that toothy, complex area of goodness and badness and the gray areas of human behavior and existence.

That means that the universe is two-dimensional. Matter, energy, time, you, me and the floor are holograms.