If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

TRUST that if they strayed from your path – they DO NOT belong there. Not everybody can go where you’re going.

If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.

I do think British and American politics rhyme. They go in cycles. They go in Thatcher-Reagan cycles, Blair-Clinton cycles.

I pray a lot. I pray that God will show me what to do and will guide me and lead me.

If I'm androgynous, I'd say I lean toward macho-androgynous.

Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

I played so perfect, I couldn't play more perfect.

The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.

When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.