All knowledge is sterile which does not lead to action and end in charity.

We must not only give what we have, we must give what we are.

Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life.

...After hardship, God will bring ease.

I didn't want to be a big record mogul and all that stuff. I just wanted to write songs and make people laugh.

A basis for much of the pain women suffer in real life is they must somehow resolve their devotion to men.

Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality.

The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.

There are many animal-welfare groups that sometimes seem to forget that human beings are animals too, that we need to include them in our sphere of compassion.

Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us.

It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.

I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.

I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.