Everything does not happen for a reason. Believing this does not ease the pain for anyone. It hides it.

Love and honor the world around you, and you experience life in its fullest. There is no “Other.” There is simply us. The all of us, the whole of us. The mankind of us. Anything else is a lie.

The courage to live in the present, between time and timelessness. No matter the circumstance, it is where life is found.

a man cannot hate unless he hates himself. Likewise one can only love another if they love themselves.

What your father never understood, is that what he loved most about her was her unbridled love and freedom to live her own life. He loved her colors and viewed her like paint.

You will not know love if you do not know suffering, and you will never suffer if you have never loved.

We are all walking a thin line between the sacred and the ordinary. The two are never far from each other, and sometimes they are the same

Don't worry about the past and don't try to figure out the future

The irony of the human condition is that it is the narrow gate to life. Few find it because they are too fearful to look

There is no end to what we can learn. The book out thereTells us as much, and was never written with us in mind.

What we desire, more than a season or weather, is the comfortOf being strangers, at least to ourselves.

Life is about finding . . .what works best for you.

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.

I know 100 percent what it's like to have people tell you that you can't hold an office because of your color, and to have people vote based on that belief.

I've raised millions of dollars for the vets. I'm helping the vets a lot.

It did seem hard to be doing something heroic while everyone was too busy to notice.

I've played for crowds as small as 30 people. As long as people want to see me play then I'll perform.

Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met.

I don't believe in love at first sight because it means you're falling in love with someone's looks, not personality.

Passion isn't always available. The committed get things done even without it.

If you decide to do comedy that involves risk, risk means risk, and you can't complain of flesh wounds if you sit down at the table to play.