If you keep your emotions locked in a box, then when you want to open it one day you'll find that they're gone.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Posing is a performing art.

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

There is no caste in blood.

Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure.

You can have results or excuses. Not both.

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

Every generation rediscovers and re-evaluates the meaning of infancy and childhood.

Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life paying off loans when I don't even like school to begin with.

There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.

I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.

Unlike Hillary Clinton, who voted for the war without knowing what she was doing, I would not have had our people in Iraq. Iraq was disaster.

Compassion is a two way street.

For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.

Regret is such a pointless emotion.

The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.