Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

Focus on patience, loyalty, intelligence, greed, dissatisfaction and pride.

The greatest risk is not taking one.

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

I'm interested in someone who's mired in grief: how do you get back to that thing that makes them warm? Because you know that's in there.

Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed.

Attending church is one thing, belonging is another.

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.

Love is irrational, I reminded myself. The more you loved someone, the less sense anything made.

I love being an actor and a job is a job, and I'm always happy to have a job.