Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

I would get parts and not be able to take them because my mother didn't have a car.

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves.

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.

I think his deepest quality is empathy.

I definitely have been known to be grossly insensitive in many different ways, you can ask the wife. To speak without a filter sometimes and not being able to edit myself with much sensitivity.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

At least I've had one foot in a very normal kind of life.