The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.

Our bodies like rhythm and our brains like melody and harmony.

A bowl of pudding only has taste when I put it in my mouth - when it is in contact with my tongue. It doesn't have taste or flavor sitting in my fridge, only the potential.

The constant nagging in your mind of undone things pulls you out of the present--tethers you to a mind-set of the future so that you're never fully in the moment and enjoying what's now.

The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.

The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business--all literature could be said to originate from sales receipts (sorry).

No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.

Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.

What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one; the way one color or form echoes another in a different part of the canvas.

The amount of scientific information we've discovered in the last twenty years is more than all the discoveries up to that point, from the beginning of language.

Librarians are more important than ever before ... are uniquely qualified to help all of us separate the digital wheat from the chaff, to help us understand the reliability of the data we encounter.

... where there's one there's ten.'That's crazy math.

When the Lord disconnects you from your past, don't try to hook up with it again.

Doing good for the sake of a heavenly reward is not an act of good, but a business transaction.

Why did I sign up for this?''Because we grow by challenging ourselves.

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

I feel very lucky because I don't think there's any part I can't play. There are parts that scare me more than others.

I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them.

It's so rewarding the journey that I've been on.

No one can keep you down but yourself