However important it is that love shall precede marriage, it is far more important that it shall continue after marriage.

If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.

It's not how much or how little you have that makes you great or small, but how much or how little you are with what you have.

One glorious chain of love, of giving and receiving, unites all creatures.

Every breath drawn by an individual who truly serves God will elicit a responsive chord from the universe around him.

We live in a divine world.

All the various component parts of the Hebrew worship subserve this great purpose, the bringing of man into communication with God.

The dream is a distant goal.

The secret to following God's will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best.

The human feelings, which had never been very deep in him, grew shallower every hour, and every day something more dropped away from the decrepit wreck.

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.

Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail. Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

I always think that you have to have a certain understanding of what an audience would want to see from you as a public person as well as a character.

I remember Robin [Williams] walked up to me after the last take and said, "Thanks boss! We nailed it!" That will probably be one of the best moments of my life.