I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst and I'm not an intellectual.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

Reality is a life sentence.

He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit.

I wish, by the way, that I knew who separated Time from eternity; there seems only one thing to me, and I always feel that I am in eternity.

Music is the can-opener of the soul.

some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind

The universe is intentional. It is always moving in the direction of greater love, regardless whether or not we consciously align with that love.

This is the secret, THE secret ... De-automatize.

I wanted some family structure and stability, and thats what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.