Now, invite me in, before I lose my temperature.’‘Temper, you mean.’‘No, temperature. It’s getting chilly.

The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.

You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.

Nature like a kind and smiling mother lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

Blessed are thoseto whom Easter is not a hunt... but a find; not a greeting... but a proclamation; not an outward fashion... but inward grace; not a day... but an eternity.

There comes a point where you see no evidence that the carrot and diplomacy are working.

If I were running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and be praying as many times as possible for a victory not only for Obama but also for the Democrats.

Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

Working on the 'Ice Age' movies, I'm really proud to be in them.

World will prosper in knowledge and intellect, if both men and women are deemed equal.

One of my favorite French singers, Alain Bashung, was the expert at creating his own universe; no one knows what he's talking about, even he doesn't know because it's so poetic.

Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses.