The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

Thank God who gave us relief from ruins of suffering.

Harbour love, not hate - don't let it contaminate your heart and conceal your beauty.

I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

This is the idea that has made me...an anonymous figure in America...If you have children here tonight...they are NOT special.

She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.

For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

Without time for loss you don't have time for soul.

Most people hate cell phone use on trains; I love cell phone use on trains. What do you want to do, read that report on your lap, or hear about your neighbour's worst date ever?

The offering of [the body] is called a spiritual sacrifice because it is freely sacrificed through the Spirit, the Christian being uninfluenced by the constrainst of the Low or the fear of hell.