Do we not hear voices, gentle and great, and some of them like the voices of departed friends,— do we not hear them saying to us, Come up hither?

Eternity is the divine treasure-house, and hope is the window, by means of which mortals are permitted to see, as through a glass darkly, the things which God is preparing.

... science and speculation pass into mystery at last.

To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.

Yes, death, the hourly possibility of it, death is the sublimity of life.

It is our souls which are the everlastingness of God's purpose in this earth.

Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will easily believe in living again as Christ does.

Let God do with me what He will, anything He will; and, whatever it be, it will be either heaven itself, or some beginning of it.

The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.

God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.

This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.

Time is Short. Take Time to Travel.

There are so many things to think about when you make an album. Like, who am I trying to impress? Am I going to get respect, critical acclaim? Or am I going to sell lots of records?

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.

If you were alone and suddenly became blind, and even so you keep walking forward.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

The greatest natural resource that any country can have is its children.

I'm fairly well off. I can't poor-mouth that away from people's sensibilities about me, which is something I worry about as an actor. But it would be real stupid of me to do something for the money.

Mom used to say I didn't run away from home my destiny just caught up with me at an early age.

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.