Talent emerges over the course of a lifetime of reciprocal interactions between the developing brain and a stimulating environment.

Inspiration is not purely passive, but does favor the prepared mind.

The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.

When perception, thoughtfulness and understanding do meet, we can fashion a range of viable expectations and craft a world of togetherness. ("Morning after")

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or 'Star Wars' would work.

I just have so much fun playing bad girl roles. Getting to say things that in life you would never ordinarily say, there's something really liberating about that. It's fun.

Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none.

As believers in Christ, we are part of Him-God the Father decided before the foundation of the world that anyone who loved Christ would be loved and accepted by Him.

The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.