Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

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.

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

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.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Powerful words come with powerful intent. Where you have passion, strength, courage, and determination you can accomplish anything!

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance.

President Obama told the Irish people that America will always stand by them, to which Israel laughed.

Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith.

I always find it a little scary to say that I'm like a character.

Crazy is so hard to play, there's nothing you can really tell an actor.