So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves instead of letting them alter us.

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.

My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.

As an actor in the theater you're taught that you never play a bad guy. You have to love who you are. You can't say, "Oh, I'm a bad guy." How do you play that?

From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.

Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.

Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.

I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life.

This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life—investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

Sometimes I think I spend my whole life trying to figure out where I fit in.