You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame..

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things..

A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn..

She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great-but how to laugh through it..

Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the hori….

My fear, as an American, is that our own actions are going to contribute to an inspiration for terrorists to want to harm us or kill us..

Get off your ass and do something. All you need is the right inspiration. Anger has fueled me my entire life. It makes me feel good and... I'm okay w….

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that..

I asked my wife where she wanted to go for our anniversary. 'Somewhere I haven't been in a long time!' she said. So I suggested the kitchen..

Tolkien was such a brilliant writer in so many ways. He was truly an inspiration. Many people don't realize just how much he researched and how much ….

I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the ti….

You can't have everything, even in California.

You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it..

I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music?... Composer Andrew Lloyd Web….

Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman.

An indispensable anthology of hope and inspiration. Put away your Prozac, and pick up The Impossible Will Take a Little While..

Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition..

I grew up with my older brother listening to hip hop, and Jay-Z was the main person I listened to. When it comes to his word play, he's just out of t….

In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all ….

I love the ideas of looking back to historical heroes to give us inspiration on how we can be today's heroes to move forward in the future. So guys l….

Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration.