I come from a place where everyone has great power, by your standards, and they steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement ... anywhere ... ever.

I'm just a girl trying to learn where to put my feet ... and where not to.

No, this isn't right. I don't think the people doing it know or care about right and wrong. This is all some kind of show, but I don't understand it either.

It doesn't matter what you think about consciousness, higher truths, or different dimensions - it's what you do and what you are that counts.

Thoughts and feelings produce actions. Sinful thoughts and feelings produce sinful actions.

Self-conceit is the enemy of progress.

As we're bombarded daily with new ads for pills, diets and ab-doers, we have to protect our wallets and our time.

The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.

I helped develop Disney's) special effects department at that time, which helped very much when we worked on "20000 Leagues under the Sea"

Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.

If you go in with a plan to make a point, and you know what your narrative is going to be already, in our mind, it's probably not worth telling.

Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to me.

And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies.