I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

Each person has a literature inside them.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

True education creates a new reality for humanity.

If you are filled with guilt and shame, it's because your heart remembers God but your head seems to have forgotten Him.

Church was never meant to be a place for gods to gather, but for devils wanting to shed their horns for halos.

You can't trust your memory. You change it to suit yourself.

Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

The practice of love can be expressed in one sentence: 'Do not harm others.'

No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.

You must be much WITH God before you can be much FOR God.

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not.