My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power.

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

Each person has a literature inside them.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

So much of people's fortune, good or bad, depends upon how they choose to fall in love.

Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.

Only he who knows God is truly moral.

The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.

And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.

Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.

I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.