I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.

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.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Then it hit me and I just blurted, 'I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

Onward boldly, pursue your passion.

Your husband this morning! Mine tonight! What do you take him for?''A man' smiled Cynthia. 'And therefore, if you won't let me call him changeable, I'll coin a word and call him consolable.

Love ends abruptly. In fact, this is central to endings of most sort. We just don't admit that.

The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

We spend our lives trying to unlock the mystery of the universe, but there was a Turkish prisoner, Bahá’u’lláh, in Akka, Palestine who had the Key.

We have the idea that our hearts, once broken, scar over with an indestructible tissue that prevents their ever breaking again in quite the same place.

Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.