We come. We go. And in between we try to understand.

The ancient universities were not based on how many credit hours you're taking or whether you've completed your credit hours. Instead, they focused more on customized, personalized learning... where...

I like actors - I used to be one.

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

I want to have and adopt. I always have; ever since I was 18, I wanted a baby, and I wanted to have and adopt because there are a lot of kids. I want to adopt an American baby though, you know what I...

The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.

When you fail to tell the truth, you are kept bound to the past in ways that devastate your soul.

I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.

Instead of insulting our teachers and tearing down public education, I believe in a Kentucky where we put students and teachers first - and I'll work to do just that by fixing some of the greatest...

Anyway, the title The War of the Insect Gods came before we had that ending, before we knew they had become gods. That we knew the evolutionary cycle they went through. Before we even knew anything...

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

The Raspberries had recorded some ballads on every one of our albums, but after 'Go All The Way' was successful, Capital pretty much wanted to hear nothing but 'Go All The Way.'

The first rule to living in America is 'Stop tap dancing, you fool!'.

George Clooney is exactly what you would expect. He's annoyingly good looking, insanely funny, and super smart. So you just feel really inferior around him all the time. You end up feeling really bad...

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

I was a hotshot as a junior. When I was 18, I really got into fiddling around. I completely lost interest in golf, and I guess all I could think about was going to college, getting married and having...

There's inherent cultural imbalance whenever you're translating from Chinese to English. Educated Chinese readers are expected not only to know about all the Chinese references - history, language,...

It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.

The song 'Can't Look Back Now' by the Weepies reminds me of the entire 'Life Unexpected' experience.

There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty...

When you're improvising, you connect with people in a way you don't in normal life, strangely.

I put it in the back of my mind that someday I would fly around the world.

Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public. All states everywhere, whether democratic,...

I hope that we continue with exploration.

When I first moved to L.A. and was a babysitter for a mentally ill billionaire's ex-wife, she taught me a lot. She taught me that when you are in L.A., you need to keep your immediate needs as small...

In Washington, it's often easy to go to work, get lost in the process, and forget why we're here every day. The reason we're here is to serve the American people.

In the newspaper business, I was in the last generation before the arrival of the personnel manager. You were hired by editors - and editors who would take a chance on what they perceived to be talent...

Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there.

My parents had two rules: You had to go to college, and you had to pay for it yourself. So we all did.

I definitely have not had a linear path. I have had more of a path where I've meandered with a sense of purpose. Really, what that means is it's about being true to your convictions and your passions...