Staying locked into an image of how things are supposed to be can blind us to the grace of what is.

Remain open to your dreams but don't be too quick to decide by what means they’ll come true.

If you want to love and understand yourself better, seek out unfamiliar people in unfamiliar places.

The battle for the lead between faith and reason can be settled by accepting the guiding hand of an experienced navigator.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

...at seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it made me more concrete ...

When I was in high school, even in college, I didn't have any real image of a career woman or a professional woman.

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

Everyone knows if you're going to take weed to school, you put it in your trapper keeper to keep it fresh.

I know it sounds stupid, but we're just playing. We're playing hard, but we're just playing.

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

When you're a foreigner, at the beginning you are far away from the culture. Then, little by little, you start to interact with people, have friends, have a life, and then you feel more comfortable.

My sorrow is my castle.

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.