If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.

At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.

If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.

Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.

Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

Every day brings new choices.

The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.

In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.

I experience the grace of greater power.

Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are.

The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

You know, my point in being an actor is to get people to believe that this is not about me, but something else.

One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.

Whenever you do die people remember you, so it's not completely over. You don't 100 percent die when you die ever, because people still know who you were.

Basically for me a story can be anything. Anything you tell me, anything I read in the newspaper, in any mode. I don't have any restrictions.