I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised.

We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.

Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.

Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.

The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?

Be what you are and sing a song of beauty and love.

humans have a global benchmark-standard of conduct that called humanity

Life is a state of give and take.

A woman of European heritage sporting a preacher's collar had the opposite effect of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. She used her privilege and the favored religion to look like a golden child.

John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.

Acting was always a part and faucet of my life. It just comes very natural. I think it's a good thing.

No, I don't want to give my people sticks. I want to give them eyes.

The compensation for a death sentence is the knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned.

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.

My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.