Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make it better.
I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.
Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.
The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.
In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.
Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.
I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others.
The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.
According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat