One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.

The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

Life is a disease.

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

Then be human. Let go and move on. They who hurt you cannot expand their mind. But surely you can.

Don't do this to us." He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realize he was losing her. "You're letting eleven years of mistrust color everything you've discovered I've done".

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

Take these chances Place them in a box until a quieter time Lights down, you up and die

Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.

We can conceive of nothing more fair than something which we have experienced.

I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

All I can do is hope.

Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.