Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.

I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death....is the true measure of the Divine within us.

A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.

Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.

It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make up that history.

But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life." -Damien

Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier.

She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more

What's it like? Being married?Cold feet. Middle of the night you're sleeping, suddenly, wham, you've got ice cold feet warming themselves on the back of your legs.

Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light

Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well?

All the beauty of the spring went for happy men to think of all the increase of the year was for other eyes to mark. Not a sign of any sunrise for me from my fount of life

The city shall be cleared of any dirt, if every community acts collectively.

He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.

Fear not your flame as you flood your caverns with firelight.

The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I'd rather hide behind accents and funny walks.

True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.

We don't ruminate during a fight. Maybe in a bath, or driving a car, or as we take a walk. But not right smack in the middle of a dramatic moment.

Our biggest national security crisis is Barack Obama.

There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he melts and perishes.