The object of your desire is not an object.

Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection.

Never offer advice just to appear concerned.

Experience will tell you if you need more of it.

Never be angry with something that can't get angry with you.

Boring is the right thought at the wrong time.

We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves.

Do not ask questions until you have trained yourself not to know the answers.

A comment that starts with the words "I think" usually means the opposite.

Hope Thrives When Prayer Strives.

When I think of how Jesus loved people, the word “cherish” comes to mind. When we cherish someone, we combine looking and compassion—we notice and care for that person. We don’t shut him or her out.

Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they’re waiting for someone to say, "You’re good, you’re pretty, I give you permission."

I'm much more of a risk taker. I'm more fearless now than when I was 18. I was much more self-aware and I cared too much about what people thought of me and now I really don't. I probably should.

You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere

To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.

I've never had a plan. You look for different actors you want to work with or different subjects you want to explore, or sometimes it's just a momentary fancy.

Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.

I love being grungy and dirty.

Clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?