Death changes nothing but the mask that covers our faces.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.

And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.

Time is taken to derive wisdom

A cat is always on the wrong side of any door.

The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness.

because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line.

Every time you lose you die a little bit. You die inside...a portion of you. Not all of your organs. Maybe just your liver.

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings.

The purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize with other people... For me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy.

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.