I see a good marriage as being like two tall trees growing beside each other, each nourishing the grace of the other.

Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing.

I'm afraid my glass is no longer half full because I drank most of it.

To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance.

We all have the right to be wrong and be loved just the same.

Ideals are great as long as they don't get in the way of what we want to do.

Until we can sense a sacred quality in time we will not begin to have a fuller understanding of it.

I feel that the only true security I have is my capacity, however limited, to love.

I think that an act of love is immortal; once tendered, it can never really be taken back.

If there were no nobodies, The somebodies would not have anybody, To convince that they were somebody, Except some other somebody, Who would not be convinced anyway.

Before I can accept someone's help, I must accept their presence.

I do not feel any obligations toward my lineage, or environment, but an inclination to what feels right.

As long as we acknowledge them, there's nothing to fear.

On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.

If you do something extraordinary for your customer you will never be forgotten. Customer service heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

Personally, I am a great believer in bed, in constantly keeping horizontal...the heart and everything else go slower, and the whole system is refreshed.

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

Abuse of power comes as no surprise

There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.

When you push someone too far, they will push back and they push hard.