R. Peck Quotes

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded.

I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out?

There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions.

If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.

Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.

I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same.

Face your reality. You, black or white, are not innocent anymore. Either you have the courage to face it or you will go down together with the whole idea of the American Dream.

Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.

Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.

Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.

I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different.

Shows have asked a lot of actors to take cuts. Shows are going off the air. So okay, life goes on.

I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.

Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.

To me, there's nothing greater than making people laugh.

I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.

To heal your body, you must first heal your spirit.

Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection.

From the age of three on, as far back as I remember, I just knew there was a God behind everything.

Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.

The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.

I've had all kinds of experiences with God in terms of revelation through a still, small voice or dreams or coincidences.

I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.

If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one.

But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move.

Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.

A good writer writes with a camera, not a pen.

Ultimately love is everything.

I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real.

If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.

What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.

I guess if you want to know one single thing I'm about, it's that I'm against easy answers.

America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification.

All human interactions are opportunities either to learn or to teach.

The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity.

Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.

Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.

I read.. because one life is not enough

I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.

My backside and my privates. I’m stuck so full of prickers, it makes me smart just to think on it.

Your past comes with you no matter where you go.

A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.

We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.

Sometimes when we think we’re protecting ourselves, we’re really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too.

In and through community lies the salvation of the world.

The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort.

When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.

The path to holiness lies through questioning everything.