Tomorrow's freedom is today's surrender.

Greatness is finding your natural talent, fueling it with passion, planting it in well-nourished soil, and toiling in the garden until it breaks through the earth and reaches for the stars.

Roar to your own beat!

If we all counted our blessings and then shared them with our neighbors, near and far, all our lives would be richer.

Sprinkled in with the beauty and joy of life will be storms. These storms will require you to anchor yourself to your faith until your rainbow arrives.

A three-quarter moon, glowering bone, with a hint of something bruised, battered, scarred. The moon has endured more than anybody can know.

Cutting libraries during a recession is like cutting hospitals during a plague.

Danger invites rescue. ... The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.

I don't like to fly. What's it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs... I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray.

I'm not a big slasher film fan.

Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies.

I really got attracted to the idea of touching so many people and that idea of art transcending entertainment and art and activism being synonymous.

I think the Democrats are actually worried he (Obama) may go to Indonesia and bow to more Muslims.

My lips got lost on the way to the kiss - that's how drunk I was.

The body knows no pain, not like the soul. At least a nerve has limits, a body part a name. But the soul... the soul... There is no bandage - even crying is in vain.