It's not a bad way to live once you let go of the idea that you deserve more.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!

I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination.

When I'm putting the character together I try to find music that I think fits the character.

To go through life without love is to travel through the world in a carriage with closed windows.

I was, like, a history major, and I minored in art and Spanish, but I found myself gravitating toward media studies as time went on.

Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.

Prayer is - loving conversation with the One who has invited us into His embrace.

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.

People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something.

You can make your life into a grand ever-evolving work of art. The key is your thoughts, the wonderous invisible part of you that is your spiritual soul.