If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?

Where the women go, the culture goes.

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.

Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure.

Things have a way of moving to the left, and then they move back to the right before somebody finds themselves in the center. That seems to be the nature of the creative world. It's not stagnant. I don't get upset about it.

Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.