Gratitude is the root of joy.

I walked away from this movie thinking how important it is to have a genuine selfless love for your children. You can really mess kids up if you don't have the right kind of love for them.

Not judging people is the fastest way to peace.

I'd rather live forever in Heaven than a place where there's terrorism and hate.

That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible.

"Silence Of The Lambs" is definitely very frightening.

When I manage to keep my center, it's usually because I've taken prayer seriously.

Being joyful is a choice.

Often times, if a character is pretty straightforward, he or she is not as interesting to portray.

There's nothing better than actually getting to watch the person and see his or her mannerisms.

I think acting is a gift. I think certain people for some reason just have a gift that they were meant to perform.

We stand on the shores of a Mystery, carried by the beauty of the horizon into fantasy that gives birth to our reality. So live like each moment is filled with gold.

You can have what you desire if it is a holy dream.

Our language one of our most precious natural resources deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands streams and whooping cranes.

It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.

I'd pick fortune over fame any day.

There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.

It's important that we invest in America - literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can't let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

I found a lot of animators bring a lot of baggage to the party, just that there's a certain way of doing things in that world that's a little hard to unlearn.