People realize that we're very good at sending people to war, but we're not good at taking care of them. And people are coming back from war now; yea….

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigge….

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline….

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it..

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly..

I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated..

I have never been in a violent movie or television show..

Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you..

Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the mar….

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators "the haute couture of language.".

Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of th….

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better..

I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times..

I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than the….

Each person has a literature inside them..

Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabular….

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing..

I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image..

In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another..

I am not myself; I am the potential of myself..

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of i….