I had an experience that probably is shared by many parents. When my daughter was born, I felt viscerally connected to generations before and after me in a way that took me by surprise.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

‎"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place".

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

No one is any more or any less important than you are.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

the Great Vaccination — the vaccination against the stupidity of the intelligentsia.

I believe one should be a woman at home.

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.

The deposit of the faith is one thing... the way it is expressed is another.

Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention.

I will no longer be an actor to hire, I have a passion for producing and making films.

If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

Please, Achimou? (Tory) You are the only being who’s ever called me that. (Acheron) Well, I’d call you babycakes, but I think that might offend you even more. (Tory)