Hitting "like" on a social media platform is the modern day version of clapping at the end of a performance.

If better were within, better would come out.

I'll follow you, even to death—but I won't live with you any more.

Carmen will always be free.

Wings are like dreams. Before each flight, a bird takes a small jump, a leap of faith, believing that its wings will work. That jump can only be made with rock solid feet.

Each day, the goal is to receive knowledge and remove ignorance. This reveals what we all search for. Wisdom.

It's not what you learn, it's the way you learn it.

I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.

Why study things of no use? To learn you don't need it and concentrate your efforts on what is important to you.

A tree is no more valuable than a seed. Both are simply at a different stage in their development.

There's a reason why golfers walk forward to their next shot. It's to move on.

When you have nothing to lose, you have everything to gain...

The noble heart will find no shortage of places to offer itself in martyrdom, but you cannot die on every battlefield.”~ Duncan Sinclair, from The Outcast Highlander

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

How we look - though it is superficial and immutable - has a huge impact on our lives.

I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes.

After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.

If you have superpowers and no one can actually cause you any physical harm, then everything has to be very thought-through. You almost have to fake at being human.

As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.

No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.

There’s a lot of times that both myself and my brother wish, obviously, that we were just completely normal.