Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.

Find a target. Know where your influence is heading towards. Find out those who will be interested in what you do and “why”. Now work hard to answer the question “why?

Running would help with the weight, but the weight did not help with running.

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.

If you want to really love someone, you've got to let go and loosen up and just care.

Never economize on luxuries.

No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

He said I was the most sensitive person he had ever seen- that I belonged to the hyper-hyper type and we rarely survive!