The Oscars are a really strange concept to me, that films and acting can be competing against each other. We're not running the same race. It's like we're all doing different sports in fact.

Don't let anyone ever make you feel you don't deserve what you want.

Never give up on what makes you smile

I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness.

I believe that whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you... stranger.

People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're feeling.

Nobody panics when things go “according to plan”. Even if the plan is horrifying!

If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.

If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.

I like to set up obstacles and defeat them.

See I’m not a monster, I’m just ahead of the curve.

When true trust has been established, you become one

Doubt is not an offense. Questioning is a step toward understanding. I am riven by beauty. I am humbled by grace. I strive to be kind, but not because I was told to.

I felt like I was living two lives. One in the present and one in the past.

Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans.

No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.

The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine.

A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by.

Lord Jesus, make us capable of loving as you love.