I like performing because it's direct contact with live people. I write a good deal of the time but that's introspective creation rather than interaction.

All limitations are self-imposed.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

The children of any nation are its future. A country, a movement, a person that does not value its youth and children does not deserve its future.

Goalkeepers need an element of insanity.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

I think the fakest thing in the world is to judge someone on how they look.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

For a moment you forget how much the loss hurts. Then you remember and it buries you.

Generational oppression begins when what is meant to be transferred to one offspring has been taken over by reason of oppression.

Unless you have a feeling for that secret knowledge that modest things can be more beautiful than anything expensive, you will never have style.

I talk kinda slow, especially for the Northeast, so it was a way to beat [would-be hecklers] to the punch.

No matter what happens in the kitchen, never apologize.

I like to let the actors work the way they want to.

From the moment we wake up each morning to the time we hit the pillow at night, we hear what people have to say, but are we really listening?

[Fighting for equality for women] that's what my mission has been for the last years.

♥"I'm a procrastinating underachiever at heart."♥

The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.