Actually, being what you are is the simplest. What is difficult is to stop being what you are not.

Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free.

No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.

Who reminds you to breathe and to beat your heart? Something is there, taking care.

The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.

You need nothing to be happy - you need something to be sad.

If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.

God is dead and I am his replacement.

Everything in existence has a purpose

The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.

The work for the actor is always the same. We're looking for a human being. We're looking for believable human behavior.

We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States.

In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.

Making music is a total hassle, really.

All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.

Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.

I don't dream about anyone - except myself