The impulse of love that leads us to the doorway of a friend is the voice of God within, and we need not be afraid to follow it.

As we practice the work of forgiveness we discover more and more that forgiveness and healing are one.

Prayer is not a matter of getting what we want the most. Prayer is a matter of giving ourselves to God and learning His laws, so that He can do through us what He wants the most.

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

I would say that when you have a big dream or you're trying to solve a big problem, there will always be people who tell you that you can't. Here's my advice: don't listen.

My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley - nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he's so good as an artist.

In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.

I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.

Someday I'm going to go onstage in a dress if I want to.

You don't need to have a perfect ending to be happy.

Average, middle-class people, the people of Macomb County, couldn't afford health care. Now they can [with Obamacare].

Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.