What I want to be is an actor, not a star.

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.

The simple act of caring is heroic.

Let us begin by doing our best to do our best, every single time, no matter what, forever.

Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

The spirit of man is an inward flame a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's political scene.

I talk, watch TV, spout opinions, schmooze, negotiate, talk some more, play games, and have a little cocktail.

The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

Imagination gives the man the ability to poject himself through time and space and rise above all limitations.

If all the elements are arranged in the order of their atomic weights, a periodic repetition of properties is obtained. This is expressed by the law of periodicity.

Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.

I optioned a book called "Rare Objects" by Kathleen Tessaro and I'm adapting it . It takes place in the 1930s and it's about two women and that's what I'm working on to direct.

Nature with her wonders blinds and binds one still. There is no escape. I love her utterly through all time and times. All over the world towns to me are prison; green fields are home.