The door that closed kept us from entering a room, but what now lies before us is the rest of reality.

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

We listen for guidance everywhere except from within.

Our problem as Americans -- at least, among my race and gender -- is that we resist the very idea of limits, regarding limits of all sorts as temporary and regrettable impositions on our lives.

Vocation at its deepest level is, 'This is something I can't not do, for reasons I'm unable to explain to anyone else and don't fully understand myself but that are nonetheless compelling.

My father gave me these hints on speech making: Be sincere ... be brief ... be seated.

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.

Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.

music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.

She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.

I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.

The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.

grateful people are a bore and become obsequious, which causes their benefactors to doubt the wisdom of their choice.

The smaller films just take a longer period of time to build their fan base because people don't see them as soon as they come out in the theater. They see them, after a period of years.