It takes time to be a good father. It takes effort - trying, failing, and trying again.

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.

The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us.

Life becomes precious and more special to us when we look for the little everyday miracles and get excited about the privileges of simply being human

It's not so much what happens to us, as what happens in us that counts.

Our theology must become biography.

There is no better education than your own failures, if you've the eyes to see. We must have the courage to fail. It's evidence that we're risking to be our best.

Learning patience takes a lot of patience!

I believe that pain and suffering can either be a prison or a prism.

Most of us have enough excuses to last a lifetime. The sooner we let go of them and get on with living, the better off we are.

All of our theology must eventually become biography.

Being there when things are easy is one of the benefits of being a good friend. Being there when things get difficult is one of the tests.

Failure is my specialty.

I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.

Like all security, privacy is hard.

To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy

The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It's too bad because it's so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science.

I'm sad for adults who want to be children. And children who want to be adults.