I don't slam doors in people's faces, and I'm not a bigot.

I'm just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.

I always told my mother I wanted a job where I could have a lot of fun and have a lot of time off. She asked me where I was going to find that, and I said, 'I don't know, but it's out there.

Making people laugh was automatic.

I loved it, but had to forget about acting after elementary school because it was the sort of thing you just didn't do in my rough neighborhood.

I'm proud to be from Philadelphia.

A spiritual connection with someone lasts forever, even when physical presence fades.

The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.

In the moments of your deepest need, despair and desperation, what you need more than any other thing, is calm and faith.

Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

Maybe that's where the new art comes in - to somehow have your eye on the marketplace and harness your art to come up with something you can be proud of creatively.

He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret

To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have taken us.

We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience.

Withdraw your awareness from everywhere and just let it rest within yourself, and you have arrived home.

I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious.