Essentially prayer is based on a relationship. We don't converse freely with someone we don't know. We bare our souls and disclose our hidden secrets only to someone we trust.

Applaud my friends, the comedy is over...[on his death bed]

If you want a work well done select a busy man: the other kind has no time.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

If you're living your life avoiding stress, you must be living on an ashram.

It's not like I'm looking to describe something that's only true of my own circumstances. It's beyond. It's way inside, you know. It's reaching inside to something that you have in common with many.

If you really thought about who you are, who God is, and how much thanks you owe Him, you would want to go to Mass. The Mass would become the source and center of your spiritual life.

I think white people like to tell Asian people how they should feel about race because they're too scared to tell black people.

Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.

I love comedy. I love to make people laugh. (But) anything that's telling a good story makes me happy. So, I just like to be part of the storytelling process.