There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.
We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.
Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.
Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.
I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.
My course is set for an uncharted sea.
Anything that exists on the human palette is, from my point of view, fair game for artists to portray. You don't have to go see it if you don't want to, so don't go.
I'm interested in playing Rasputin at some point. I find him such a fascinating character and a fascinating period in Russian history. Either Rasputin or Jesus. I think I have more of a chance to play Rasputin.