Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

Of course you know the miracle of AIDS, we all do. It's the only disease that turns fruits into vegetables.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world - from religion to race.

God willing and the creek don't rise

My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days.

Those other 10 o'clock shows that come on, all you get from them is headaches and nightmares when you go to bed! At least we give you food, know what I mean?

Depth has one address: fidelity in love.

[On children:] Being built closer to the floor, they can dust the baseboards in half the time.

In fact, a child is not even considered a human being.

I want to make films that make people laugh hard, and I am not afraid to walk away from this business tomorrow.

The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.

If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem that may appear in your life, you should not allow the government to do it for you.