I tried all my life to be a normal person. Stars are in the sky. I like cooking and gardening.

The Bible is wonderful. It's only one book, but you can put two grams of coke on top of the Bible, and you first take a line of coke and then you open the Bible. Because then you understand.

Audition is the worst thing. It's like cleaning furniture in a department store.

When you start in movie business... It is a business, actually. Nothing to do with art. Picasso is art, and Giacometti, but film acting is no art. Just the luck of being discovered, maybe.

I'm not an ensemble actor, because it's always a lot of ego when you're all together in the scene. It's kind of intellectual fighting for something.

Life is a precious possession...It is what one makes of it. - Charity Duncan

Life is a long failure of understanding, a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination.

He who is greatest among you shall be a servant. That's the new definition of greatness. ... By giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.

Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

We, the people, do have the power to stop the tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food.

We yield to none in our love, admiration and respect for the Buddha-the Dharma-the Sangha. They are all ours. Their glories are ours and ours their failures.

. . . [A]s a rule, the most learned persons do not produce the greatest results. We see that only too often.