In this country our principles should not be silent.

You can be spiritual all by yourself. Everybody has a soul. But to be religious, it seems like you need other people, and then sometimes it becomes more about the people than the soul.

Porches could be cleaned with a broom in a few minutes, but the soul could not be swept. It had to be shaken. And shaking the loess from a soul took a lifetime and more strength than most people had.

There are struggles you cannot win, but a man can meet his own heart if value is found in loss. Give yourself permission to cry.

The power of our country relies on the character that comes out of each of our homes.

The world has a way of dragging down our mood.

I wonder if God hears prayers if the only time you make them is when you’re in trouble.

He knew that prejudice was a necessary part of the weak spirit of some men.

Time does not heal, but it can liberate. A race run well can never be lost.

Hope was always hard to find in the darkness.

Doing without will wear on you until temptation is stronger than character, sometimes.

Recurring dreams for some may seem like a punishment

The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.

Many comedians - both male and female - do have an "I will never date another comedian" rule.

If you are sad, if you are heartbroken, make yourself up, dress up, add more lipstick and attack.

There's been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I've always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

Pompeii has nothing to teach us, we know crack of volcanic fissure, slow flow of terrible lava, pressure on heart, lungs, the brain about to burst its brittle case (what the skull can endure!)

I like doing things that are very wildly different. I find that the meat and vegetables of being an actor is doing things that are completely different, all the time.

Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.

I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.

This is a world of process, not a world of things.