[Y]ou're young. Young takes care of everything.

Poetry is an art of expressing the unknown music of our inner feelings and emotions in our known language.

It is not enough to simply listen to student voice. Educators have an ethical imperative to do something with students, and that is why meaningful student involvement is vital to school improvement.

Don't like when sports interviewers force answers: Are you dedicating this game to your sick grandmother? What's the guy supposed to say?

When you are playing an egomaniac running a fantastical ship, you don't want him to be too suburban. Naturalism doesn't work on the high seas.

We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants.

I am fairly optimistic about the disillusionment that produces homogeneity in general. The films that succeed in [theaters] are fairly homogeneous in terms of narrative and vision of the world.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.

When you wake up in the morning, smile - and get it over with.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.