Happy persons seldom think of happiness. They are too busy losing their lives in the meaningful sacrifices of service.

An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.

Forgiving is...recognizing the injury, owning the pain, & reaching out.

The golden rule of friendship is to listne to others as you would have them listen to you.

Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. Happiness is having a sense of meaning, not a feeling of futility.

Happiness is living by inner purpose.

If chocolate is a foretaste of heaven, what does it mean that chocolate is freely available to all?

The man who forgives pays a tremendous price - the price of the evil he forgives.

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.

I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

You expect success, you respect failure.

Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.

It is impossible for me to get involved in films that I don't like, so I just wait for a project that really tickles my fancy.

Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.

It's been Axelle's [Carolyn] and my burden to bear, for better or worse. A very fun burden to bear.

a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something

For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.