Everyone is always learning something new, " my father would remind me when he checked to see if I was doing my homework and found me gazing out the window at the stars. "If not, why be alive?

Tears are for happiness.

Happiness and joy are both decisions and choices you must make every day.

Don't expect too much from people who don't even have respect for themselves.

This world, the eternally imperfect, the eternal and imperfect image of a contradiction – an intoxicating joy to its imperfect creator – that is what I once thought the world.

Love isn't really all that terrifying once you let go of your doubts.

There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say.

My comprehension of God comes from a deeply felt conviction of a superior intelligence that reveals itself in the knowable world.

I've always wanted to do non-comedies, I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things.

God must love the rich or he wouldn't divide so much among so few of them.

God is to us like the sky to a small bird, which cannot see its outer limits and cannot reach its distant horizons, but can only lose itself in the greatness and immensity of the blueness.

If you have a problem with the Moon in the sky and you are unhappy, change yourself, because the Moon won't change!