Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings - an awareness of the tragic sense of life.

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?' If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.

To love is to return to a home we never left, to remember who we are.

The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.

Trust what moves you most deeply.

Down to earth advice about the path that leads away from the kingdom of the hollow men.

The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.

Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't mean anything.

At the same moment a cold chill traced a finger down the middle of my back. Sometimes things come back to you, that's all. Sometimes they come back.

Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.

It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.

Remember that nobodies are the new somebodies.

Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.

Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.

My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.

A restless spirit who can't reach his goal, can't find a home until I've found my soul.

I like acting in London-not least because it means I can go home after the show every day, rather than being on location making a film.

Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.