It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden.

The true measure of a person’s character is how one handles one’s failures, not successes.

I am shocked at the attitude of our American troops. They have no respect for death, the courage of an enemy soldier, or many of the ordinary decencies of life.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

Sometimes when you read the Bible, you find yourself asking, "How does this book know that about me? How does it know that about our world - especially when it was written so long ago?"

I smoke because I like to get high.

Sometimes you have to say goodbye to the things you know and hello to the things you dont.

I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.