I'm loving 'We Are Young,' by Fun. Really gets the morning rockin' to a great start.

A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Molière and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams.

You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.

It's just a whole different vibe with improv. As an actor I just kind of exercise within my environment and adjust depending on where I'm at.

You will always find me writing and reading as long as I have the breath of life within me.

We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

My mom is great and I make sure that we pray together before every race. She helps me put everything in perspective and remind me of the real reason I run.

To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.

When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.

All you have to do is mate.

A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?

I think underneath it all [in the Big Funk] was a little bit of a Europeanness in it.

Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.