It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope; there is no such society any more as the gods once supported.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

When I got out of Yale Drama School, I was completely broke.

And don't confound the language of the nation with long-tail'd words in osity and ation.

The spirit of Christmas is - and hopefully always will be - about goodwill and generosity to others and peace on earth.

Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.

If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.