I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started.

Every pain is a lesson.

The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.

I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.

Should; shouldn't; ought; oughtn't—the enemies of contentment.

Stick a lighted candle up your backside to give yourself that inner glow.

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.

I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough.

Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued.

There are some places you love with your heart, and there are some places that you love with your mind- the places that you love with both are called 'libraries'

If you give customers a chance, they’ll communicate with you in many ways.

I don’t know about black or white magic I just know one type and that is your magic.

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.

Spiritual illumination and perspective are poured out through the windows of heaven and into our lives as we honor the law of tithing.

All revolutions are bloody. The October Revolution was bloodless, but it was only the beginning

Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were different, if we even were, maybe nobody is.

I prepare myself very intensely. I am at the theatre four hours before the performance. It allows for complete concentration and preparation.

I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.