For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

Failure is an opportunity to learn again

*Employee* is a label given to a creature that could not hold on to its dream.

Ignorance never protected anyone for long.

Weapons are less harmful than words.

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

You can't fake community, you can't force it, either.

I really enjoy doing theater, but doing theater in Seattle is like dropping a brick in a bottomless well. It's gratifying, but it's almost like doing radio. It's ephemeral.

First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.

Death is a release from and an end of all pains.

Never, ever invest money that you will need prior to three to five years - minimum.