R. Peck Quotes

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

Just put one foot in front of the other.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

I do work too hard sometimes, but my mom is such an inspiration. She tells me to 'chill out' and not take things so seriously. She will say: 'Go and have a massage.'

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody.

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.

I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.

I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.

Entertainment is all right, but entertainment with an idea behind it is much more important.

It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all.

Only the nonreader fears books.

When you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself in all ways that are necessary.

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

Gregory Peck is the hottest thing in town. Some say he is a second Gary Cooper. Actually, he is the first Gregory Peck.

God creates each soul differently, so that when all the mud is finally cleared away, His light will shine through it in a beautiful, colorful, totally new pattern.

The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.

They say the bad guys are more interesting to play but there is more to it than that - playing the good guys is more challenging because it's harder to make them interesting.

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love,' Peters said.

Integrity is never painless.

I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.

I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

We are most often in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.

What is wrong with keeping guns out of the hands of the wrong people?

Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in.

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.

I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name.