If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you -- without you asking.

It’s just a party, right? What could possibly go wrong?

It doesn't matter what a person is born but it matters how he grows up to be...

The earth is a spaceship. While you are here, enjoy the ride.

It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.

You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher.

When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix, they thought Jamie was a little light.

And this was why falling for the butterflies was never a good idea. I didn't feel all bubbly and excited now. I felt cold and broken and empty.

I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.

It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body also?