I think there are families that are very kind and supportive of people's ability to change. People who come from such families may go through life without dipping into the dark night.

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?' If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.

To love is to return to a home we never left, to remember who we are.

The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.

Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings - an awareness of the tragic sense of life.

Trust what moves you most deeply.

Down to earth advice about the path that leads away from the kingdom of the hollow men.

The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.

Denial and rejection is one of the most powerful weapons that can turn a man into an evil.

Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes.

I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Noone's a leader if there are no followers.

When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.

To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich.

Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.

I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view.

All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.