Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?

Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

[The media] are using a national treasure - that's what the public airwaves are. And they have a responsibility to bring out the full diversity of opinion or lose their licenses.

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

It's just that different emotions and perceptions demand different frequencies and intensities.

I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity.

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.