I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.

I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.

The heart lies to itself because it must.

We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.

Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.

I believe that Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.

Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her.

When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.

Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.

WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.

My love, you are all the flowers in the worldand I promise that my heart will always be your garden.

Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.

All men should freely use those seven words which have the power to make any marriage run smoothly: You know dear, you may be right

I love the challenge of playing characters forced on life-changing emotional journeys. To work on a project with Billy Crudup and Sam Rockwell is just a dream come true.

The practice of all ages and all countries (whether Christian or heathen, polite or barbarous) hath been ... to do honour to those who are invested with public authority.

I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.

I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George.

Greatness can be captured in one word: lifestyle. Life is God's gift to you, style is what you make of it.

The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.

The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly.