Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.

Seldom can the heart be lonely, If it seek a lonelier still; Self-forgetting, seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.

Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there; Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear.

Love understands love; it needs no talk.

Take my will, and make it Thine, It shall be no longer mine; Take my heart, it is Thine own; It shall be Thy royal throne.

Teach us, Master, how to give All we have and are to Thee; Grant us, Saviour, while we live, Wholly, only Thine to be.

Hidden in the hollow Of His blessed hand, Never foe can follow, Never traitor stand; Not a surge of worry, Not a shade of care, Not a blast of hurry Touch the Spirit there.

We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author

Faithfulness to principle is only proved by faithfulness in detail.

No life can be dreary when work is delight.

A great deal of living must go to a very little writing.

Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

We only betray ourselves.

People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.

The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location.

It's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.

God has no favorites.

Muichi Motsu: "Hold nothing": If you meet Buddha, kill Buddha. If you meet the patriarchs, kill the patriarchs. Free of all, bound by nothing, you live your life simply as it is

My mission is healing, pure and simple.

I know what makes me happy. I pick the clothes that make me happy - sometimes people like them, sometimes they don't. I try to listen to my own internal guide.

In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program.