We listen for guidance everywhere except from within.

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

The door that closed kept us from entering a room, but what now lies before us is the rest of reality.

Our problem as Americans -- at least, among my race and gender -- is that we resist the very idea of limits, regarding limits of all sorts as temporary and regrettable impositions on our lives.

Vocation at its deepest level is, 'This is something I can't not do, for reasons I'm unable to explain to anyone else and don't fully understand myself but that are nonetheless compelling.

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.

Most people would succeed above themselves.

I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.

Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.

Always listen to your heart, because even though its on your left side, its always right.

"Failure" isn't a word I really use.

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

A car is just fast enough when you stand in front of it in the morning and are afraid to unlock it.