I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience.
You can swim in life and seawater, but both are hard to swallow.
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
Patience has tender feet.
Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.
When you first get out of doing a show for a long time where you played a teenager, casting directors and producers all still look at you as being the character that you played for so long.
It's been a long time since Roe v. Wade, and I do think most people are able to have respect for other people's choices. Most people, I think, have accepted that it's not up to them to control other people's choices, except, it seems, when it comes to Washington, D. C. , where everyone has an opinion about people's uteruses.
Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.
The whole message of the piece was that possessions are transient. You don't know if you are going to be able to have time with somebody, so you better be careful.