If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness.

Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others

I like that kind of thing. I like warmth and uncalled-for kindness, the small unnoticed generosities that speckle the meanness of the world.

The past shouts at you, the ugly words or actions echo down across the years.

What difference makes what you believe? What happens will happen anyway, exactly the same, no matter what you believe. What you do makes the important part. What you do.

...if we somehow find the courage to go directly into the discomfort - even the discomfort of illness, pain, old age, and death - we might discover something unexpected there.

With two teenagers in the house, we sometimes experience a degree of domestic turbulence that sounds, to my ear, like a boiling teakettle filled with hormones shrieking on a stove.

Simply by being your absolute, most genuine self in every interaction of every hour, you provide a great and rare service on this earth.

The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

The danger of parachuting young enthusiastic scientists into a flower bed of selected data and fully bloomed conceptions should be underestimated.

Even a president makes mistakes.

I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a teenager, I suppose I figured that I'd always been in that world to some extent.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings.

Babies were dangerous . . . they made you fall in love before you knew what was happening.

Nobody’s as serious about health and fitness as me, and staying fit is my top priority.

People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.