There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Attention is a precious commodity.

I live a very privileged life, obviously. I'm an accomplished actor, I have a very solid normal family, tons of siblings, and a mother that loves me.

We need our Dads right now, we need strong fathers. I really want fathers to get close to their children.

Be humble, or you'll stumble.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

New York is a character, all on its own, and whenever you film there, it becomes part of the show. That's just the nature of being there.

Success in the movies has pushed me to places I didn't know I was allowed to go.

When I saw for the first time by the Word of God that sickness was not the Will of God, everything in my nature rose up to defeat the will of the devil.

The first myth of management is that it exists.