We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.

Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.

Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.

In our day it's worse to judge evil than to do evil.

What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in the blood.

Flying in his dreams was an exhilarating, breathtaking experience, sometimes literally, that tended to leave reality wanting, like riding a roller coaster compared to mowing the lawn.

If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.

I never dreamed that my future would be my husband's past. But it's such a huge past in terms of the recorded content.

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.

Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.

And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.

I tend to tell stories that have a lot of momentum; it's not like 'and then months later...' I like things where the momentum of one action rolls into the next one so everything is the sum of that.

Growing the mycelium of the Chaga mushroom under laboratory conditions provides an ecologically friendly alternative supply of this unique medicinal mushroom.

I don't ever feel that it's necessary to say certain things. I think we can be very suggestive. I think we can allude to certain things.

A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing--you are stretching...You are going outside your immediate grasp.