Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.

I was not the kid that hung out at the arcade.

No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.

You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a good day after all.

I just had to be strong enough to allow myself to be vulnerable. Great Lesson. For art and for life.

You just have to decide how close you want them. Not every person in your life needs to be your best friend: some can be friends or just friendly acquaintances.

Along time ago I asked myself do I want to be right or do I want to be kind; I opted for kind.

I try not to plan ahead. I just kind of try to think in the moment. I always believe everything will work out the way it's supposed to.

That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair.

Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.

It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they?

God's codpiece, you're very kind

It is dangerous to use our own ability to access non-traumatic memories as a standard against which we judge a trauma victim’s response.

The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.

Circumstances alter faces.

When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.

It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.

People come up with stupid ideas all the time. That's why your detergent tells you not to eat it.

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.