I know that the problem isn't the dream per se. It was the way I felt afterward, once awake.

You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.

Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.

I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.

I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.

One often has to do what they have to do in order to do what they want to do

You will reach success if you move forward, staying still only makes your journey longer.

Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.

There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.

Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.

Admit to your contentment so it can tip over into joy.

Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.

This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.

I'm half-Japanese, so I collect toys, like a Yayoi Kusama stuffed pumpkin.

If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed to the will of God.