I know someone loves me from how they say my name. Like with my mom and dad, when they say "Benjamin" it's like my name is safe in their mouth.

Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn't paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it for her, even after he fell and broke his hip, too. For me, that's love.

Isn't it interesting what a stranger can offer? A little wisdom, a little mercy, a little love.

We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced sil

I don't like money actually but it quiets my nerves.

Every day when you wake up, ask yourself, 'What do I really, really, really want? ' You have to say really, really, really, otherwise you won't believe it.

After denial comes anger and finally, acceptance.

But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

I knew I was always going to be around music. And I actually thought I would be dancing, not a vocal major.

I like to serve chocolate cake, because it doesn't show the dirt.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

I would feel much the way I feel when anybody is elected. You deal with what you end up getting.

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.