It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.

Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.

The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.

It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.

Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game.

Lovely Arra Sails, nectar to all males, how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale!

I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed Dolly Parton was my mother and I was a bottle baby.

I always keep my repertorial hat on.

But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.

Nature never gives everything at once.