Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

As soon as you become aware that something is not working, immediately shift your focus to the desired result.

Truly visionary and successful companies have discovered that there is no conflict between the pursuit of profit and having a pursuit beyond profit.

Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding, like a lamp overturned and re-lit, illuminating the darkness.

I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.

As an actor, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized that until it actually happened.

Loudness is impotence.

I'm a mum. Cooking is something I have to do. It's something I like to do.

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

The United States deserves nothing but love and adoration and gold medals left and right and peace prizes left and right, things we never get.

Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.