The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.

Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.

I miss that feeling of connection.Knowing he was out there somewhere thinking about me at the same time I was thinking about him.

I go, but I always remember you.

There are no whole truths

Her fragrance blew him off and his body followed steps he had never learnt in his life.

You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.

As an actor, I function from a place of compassion and empathy - you have to believe 100 percent what your character is doing, because otherwise it will look like it's not real.

Baseball and malaria keep coming back.

A real jiu-jitsu fighter does not go around beating people down. Our defense is made to neutralize aggression.

As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because you either loved them or you hated them.

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty