An actor has to burn inside with an outer ease.

All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation.

Real inspired acting is never DOING, it is always HAPPENING

That is art: to give all you have. And what have you? Your life - nothing more. And to give life means to feel life throughout your whole being.

You cannot keep bumping your head against reality and saying it is not there.

Life is a river, " a wise friend told me. "It's flowing. You're never at the same place twice.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

This planet is dying. The human rase is killing it. ...If the Earth dies, you die. If you die, the Earth survives.

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.

If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.

There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable.

When it comes to responding to Jesus, I find it's important to distinguish between reverence, religion, and relationship.

Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.

The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.