We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.

Well for six years during Cheers I couldn't get another job.

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly and most underrated agent of human change.

I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in.

We need to inspire and give each other confidence so that the work we do will be fruitful for the well-being of the people and the stability and security of the country.

You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

When you're doing superhero stunts, the objective is to look as cool as humanly possible.

The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is another liar... I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does.

I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.

It is necessary to keep ones compass in ones eyes and not in the hand for the hands execute but the eye judges.

I get skinnier if I'm very busy.

The time between appearances for us is so great that we lose track of it. It would be like watching 'Ben Hur' at one frame a second. There would be long periods of time where absolutely nothing was going on.

I like mountains and oceans and stuff, which is where I've always felt some sort of power of meaning, but that's not necessarily spiritual.

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

I wanted to be respected by filmmakers, and why should they respect me if they saw that my superiors did not treat me with respect.

I dont think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.

Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.

As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.

I got rid of all of my non-stick pots and pans, anything that had a kind of toxic surface in terms of cooking.

I'm not a comedian. And I'm not sick. The world is sick, and I'm the doctor. I'm a surgeon with a scalpel for false values.

The point of the feminist movement wasn't simply to set our underwear on fire and muscle into small spaces in the male-dominated workplace, but to create a world where the contribution of both sexes was equally valued and no one's worth was judged on their take-home salary.

The challenge for corporations, if offices were to become obsolete, is twofold. How will they be able to retain their distinct cultures? And how will they be able to ensure that all employees, wherever they work from, share a united identity and vision?

The most valuable insight on choosing whom to love is to be honest with yourself about the man standing before you.