If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.

But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.

To make money you have to use a four letter word: SELL.

To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.

And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.

Wait a minute! This is grass! We've been eating grass!

In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt.

If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.

All I wanted to do was to become famous, but then I found out that it was nothing special.

If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.

I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people.

Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.