I'm kind of a manic exerciser. I'll like exercise for a week and be crazy, and then I won't do it for six months.

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.

God is infinitely beautiful in himself, and his beauty ought to attract you like a magnet to him.

Life is about the adventures you take and the memories you make. So travel often and live life with open eyes and an open heart.

Before one can know what is right and wrong, he must first align himself with God. Only then is one in a position to do right.

I think when we get to a place that this is not the story, that everyone's story is a part of the story, then we can say this has changed. Until then, these are steps to change if they're consistent.

Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.

To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat.

To the landscape architect a rock garden... appears... the work of a lunatic.

It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.

Kazan was an old friend, I met him in 1938. He picked up radio jobs for eating money, so I met him on a couple of radio shows. Later on I was in a play he directed.

I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery.