I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.

A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.

Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.

God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.

If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content

As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.

You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women

I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable.

I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

When we travel with a sense of mission, we attract events, people and opportunities toward us.

Without faith you can't see a miracle; you just see unexplained events.