Waking up is the dangerous act of worship. It's dangerous because worship is meant to produce lives fully attentive to reality as God sees it, and that's more than most of us want to deal with.

Find a voice in a whisper.

As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.

I used a lot of sports psychologists when I was younger... sometimes it helped, sometimes it didn't.

Mr. Brooks and I have been friends forever. He is in seventh heaven with his new success on Broadway.

Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.

Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.

When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.

Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.

If it's not impossible, you may as well try. If it is impossible, at least you'll find out why.

People don't really think other people are the same.