Though they only take a second to say, thank yous leave a warm feeling behind that can last for hours.

Unless you want a horrible surprise, never go bird watching with an open mouth.

You know, Molly, if you can hold in your mind what you want long enough, you shall have it.

All of the world's religions have important things to teach us, and they are not as different from each other as some would have you believe.

Clothes were to Sylvia what books were to me: the only thing that really mattered.

I'm a man born to blood and pain, and peace would be a killing blow for me.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

In the lead-up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw, at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence, and irresponsibility; at worst, lying, incompetence, and corruption.

I am a storyteller and a researcher, and I'm sorry the world has a hard time straddling the tension of those two things, but that's who I am.

Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so--that is to say, as free as man.

Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you.

I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

I'd like to see the first act of Sunday in the Park with George, and the second act of Hamilton. Every day.

I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.