It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.

We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.

There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.

While the heart beats, hope lingers.

And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.

Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt.

Your future is uncertain, and I can tell you nothing that can help you. You are singular and dangerous, and so it is that you are sought by both the Dark and the Light.

Not even I can see all ends, but I have been in this world long enough to know that a choice is not choice and breeds slow ills, even were it done for the highest reasons.

The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.

I shall never complain of the tedium of the city again.

Elednor,' he said, 'Elednor, why have you betrayed me? Come back to me. Come back to were you belong. I alone need you.

He knew that the dread in these men’s minds was not of the fact, but of his naming it—as if the fact had not existed, but his words held the power to make it exist.

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate.

If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle?

There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

It's not like I'm sitting at home coming up with some secret beauty plan. I try to eat fruit and be healthy. If I'm feeling a bit sickly, I usually get a good spray tan.

This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation.

If I'm in a social situation sometimes I'll hang back and observe people but I feel very much a part of things most of the time and feel very comfortable socializing and have for most of my life.

In Las Vegas, nothing ends very well.