Resist doing things that have no meaning for life.

To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe; a moment that never was before and never will be again.

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.

I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.

Writing is a gift to both the writer and the reader.

Staring at the blue sky causes insomnia to occur in the human

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.

I've always like the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be, so it's easier to remember who I am.

A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.

Creativity can flourish within sensible financial limitations.

Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.

I'm more about what's right than having the girl's back no matter what.