All grief, anyone's grief...is the weight of a sleeping child.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

...when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well as pain.

Any given moment—no matter how casual, how ordinary—is poised, full of gaping life.

To survive was to escape fate. But if you escape your fate, whose life do you then step into?

It's not a person's depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

Truth grows gradually in us, like a musician who plays a piece again and again until suddenly he hears it for the first time

Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts. A thought can do us more good than a doctor or a banker or a faithful friend. It can also do us more harm than a brick.

There is a creator and a redeemer, and the purpose of it all is love.

Our hunger signal will remain active until we take in an adequate supply of nourishment.

The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes.

You never know what's going to happen. Anything can happen there... and often does.

The most important thing you do as a leader is to hire the right people.

We are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross.

I did as much as I could in Vancouver. You can only play so many ex-'Falcon Crest' sons in so many movies of the week before you burn out.

We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is.

People, your Government has returned to you!