Happiness, ... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity.

... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.

The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.

The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.

Learn from the past, but don’t live in the past.

But I knew that, both in fairyland and the real world, too, wishes were a slipperier things.

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

I'm a songwriter first.

I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.

I have tons of jokes with moments in them over the years in stand-up that don't get a laugh but I love them so they stay.

I would say probably my least favorite costume ever was in 'Van Helsing.' That was a huge pain because it had thigh-high boots with 30 buckles on them that had to be done up individually.

Films are made all over the world all the time and only a thin slice of that product is Hollywood.

A reasonable fine is such as the law will judge to be so . . . but what a reasonable fine is, and who shall be the judge of it, the law has established no rule.