Nothing hurts a good soul and kind heart more than to live amongst people who can't understand it.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

I remind myself how people with a low propensity for success whose behavior is guided by fear, have a low propensity for success.

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier theywouldn't have to go so fast.

Be fearless in the chase of your dream.

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head.

Acting is just a job. I'm exactly the same as that lady bringing us coffee, and I have to remember that.

Conversion is an offering of self, of love, and of loyalty we give to God in gratitude for the gift of testimony.

As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives.

If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.

I live about six miles from where I was born and raised.