If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.

The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

Life is a disease.

I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself

Fame for the lames, fortune for the brains.

Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

There is no question we are having a difficult time rounding up the votes.

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.

You really don't put a value on your first win, it is priceless no matter where you are.

Stop, open up, surrender the beloved blind silence. Stay there until you see you're looking at the light with infinite eyes.

When you're a doctor and you spend most of your life in a hospital, you honestly don't get to watch as much television as you think you might, and the power of television is enormous.