I might love my e-reader, but I'd never pass up the chance to browse real books.

Don't you agree that if I act like there is nothing going on, other people will behave that way too?

That's what you did when someone was having a hard time. You fed them. It was a tradition that crossed all cultures.

Often, people hurt things on accident... No one plans on hurting anyone, but it happens.

You make the best out of it, you can. Nothing is ever as good or as bad as you think it will be. It's what you make of it.

...I understand that at times, life takes us in different directions than we planned.

Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.

Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.

I was honestly never a huge school person.

it was first love. There's no love like that. I don't wish it on a soul. I don't hate anyone enough.

Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more committed.

You can't fix stupid, but you can numb it was a 2 by 4.--T-SHIRT

Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low. The universe's inward voices cry "Amen" to either song of joy and woe. Sing, seraph, poet! sing on equally!

Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.