Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father, " she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?

When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor.

I believe we [americans] are strongest as a nation, when the president and Congress work together.

I knew one thing. I did not want to be a mommy like mommy.

We just need to relax and rejoice in our divine differences. We need to realize that we all desire to serve in the kingdom, using our unique talents and gifts in our own ways.

Were Moses to go up Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd bring down with him would be aspirin and Prozac.

Confine yourself to the present.

Forgiveness is the key to inner peace because it is the mental technique by which our thoughts are transformed from fear to love.

I can't complain. I'm making a living out of what I do, which is really rare for a lot of actors. The hard part is staying confident and staying with it.

Actually we're very lucky John McCain is not in charge because I think we would be in perpetual war.