I was never happy, I was just less pissed off.

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.

The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions.

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers.

The child in you like all children loves to laugh to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives the better.

The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their fangs drawn - they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what's going on.

Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.

I don't think that anyone should doubt Israel's determination to defend itself against terror and destruction.

All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

You have to build a culture of philanthropy. In a country like India, we need to be sensitive and caring about the poorer, more disadvantaged section of our country.

Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future

I close my eyes while driving and just sing along. I always open them again in time.