Do not be satisfied with the speech of your lips and the thought in your heart, all the promises and good sayings in your mouth, and all the good thoughts in your heart; rather you must arise and do!

People are accustomed to look at the heavens and to wonder what happens there. It would be better if they would look within themselves, to see what happens there.

There is nothing as whole, or as perfect, as a broken heart.

God is only where you let Him in.

One ought to be mixed up with the world and to be able to wash one's hands of it - to be part of the world and also outside it. One [needs] to be both involved and detached at the same time.

Peace without truth is a false peace.

First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.

When a man makes a reverent face before a face that is no face - that is idol worship!

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

I wuz bad. I did not meen to be. I wanted to see the litle peeple who lives in the radio. I could see the lits on. The radio fel on the flor. The lites won't even werk an thos peeple is ded.

All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.

If someone you love asks you to give up something you love, don't do it.

You know why Guns n' Roses aren't a good band? Because no black people listen to them.

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

Life has a balance and natural order. I'm not fighting the flow anymore. My career right now is very up. It's happening naturally and it's happening well.

Well, usually when I finish one character, I'm looking for a role that's really different.

Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.

It sounds corny to say, but the theater is sacred; something transcendent can occur, and when it does, everyone grows. It's a true communion.