Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.

Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.

The risk is enormous to Democrats. Even talking about censure or impeachment threatens to really agitate the Republican base.

Now that we're essentially an indoor species, walled off from the world of other life forms, we're divorced from the very domain that supports and sustains our lives.

You may not know what the outcome will be, but you have to try to give yourself a future, no matter how long it takes. You have to hold on to hope.

There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.

There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change.

Why wouldn't I dance?' Uh, maybe because at first glance he looked like he ate puppies for breakfast and kittens for lunch?

Ratings for the XFL are so low that pretty soon they'll be able to address the viewers by name.

We read the world - television, movies, songs, books - and the people in it through the lens of our own lives.

Above all, learn how to breathe correctly.

I come from the theater and you normally have four or five weeks to prepare. For me, the fun of the job is to pull yourself into a subject that you know nothing about.

I don't think anything is as magical as a fairy tale experience by a child.

Don't wait for someone else to validate you. Validate yourself.