When I learned how to calculate, I stopped counting. When I learned how to smile, I stopped being afraid. When I learned to understand what my cowardice wants from me, I stopped retreating.

I am what my past allows me to be.

There are no insensitive hearts, just hearts that don't find it profitable anymore to feel.

As long as you create, you are being created.

One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was "the only book which allowed him to forget politics.

The more stitches, the less riches.

Barack Obama's busy moving into the White House. Earlier today, John McCain was blowing on his soup.

I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent.

I look for people who have a slightly different perspective and are trying to move the needle a little bit and push boundaries.

She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected.

No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.

Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!

Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that.