All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

Once you label me you negate me.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

At Juilliard, I couldn't afford to have fun. I went to school and stayed home.

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones.

So far for humans it has been the case that ego develops and then humans are stuck with it for the rest of their lives.

I can die anytime I want. I wish I could do the same with life.

When you can literally Google anything, you don't feel like you have to go see it in person. You can do a lot of traveling in your bedroom, but you're not touching anything and you're not feeling it.

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.

I had to say no to 'Fantasy Island' back when I was doing 'Bosom Buddies.'

Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.