Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

The beauty of traveling solo is that you wonder unexpectedly, but almost certainly into the direction you were meant to go.

His calm and gentle tone was like an anchor in a ferocious sea, keeping me from drifting into a current of heartache.

Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren't accompanied by regret.

Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play.

My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste?

The room is full of such talent. It's a beautiful thing about the SAG Awards. It's the most rewarding room to be in as an actor.

We are about to have a racial explosion.

On the whole, it seems to me that probably the American press is doing a better job of this mediation, so to speak, between the people and the administration than the press of any other country.