There's a place between passivity and violence. I'll meet you there.

The woman looked out at the madness of the world and dared to hope. Her eyes were burning coals of stars.

All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.

As long as we don't cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us.

No one's life made sense on paper. You cannot condense a person into facts.

Stop listening to the TV tell you about America the beautiful . . . get up and be America the beautiful.

We've got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties.

A freedom given up is not so easily regained.

The Earth was singing her revolution. She was calling her brave men and women to her defense.

This isn't about keeping mountains looking pretty. Ending mountaintop removal is about keeping humanity alive.

Precarious, life is. A flying leap. A sweep of hand. A star flung across the night. A lucky catch in this whirling juggling circus act.From Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars

Love is splendid light.

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.

You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long term.

You should have fun when you're acting. That's when magic happens.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

I am an only child and home-schooled, so I have no siblings or classmates.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I'd just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead.

True art is reverent imitation of God.