So this needs to be said, and so I will try to say it

It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim

After college I got a job and started working. This new career had absolutely nothing to do with my degree.

Everything around me affirmed there was nothing else I could do – yet everything inside me cried that I was not doing enough.

A lifelong movie I already knew the ending to

Don’t count your dollars to see how rich you are. Count your memories. Count your friends. Count the hugs you get every day. Count what really matters.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Don't you complicate your mind Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy.

I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it untouched, saying 'I don't want to make a cemetery of your compositions.'

I'm not going to leave Canada, I'm going to fix it.

Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.

When it came to the on-camera TV stuff, I'd be standing next to the director, my friend, and he'd be asked a question that I should have been answering.

I am Constantly afraid, but it's a big driving force in my life. I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me.

Comedy is like expensive cheese. Well, it's like cheese, in general. Everybody likes what they like, and everything they don't like, they think is the worst.