It is not our task to judge the worthiness of our path; it is our task to walk our path with worthiness.

We’re conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware – beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.

Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life.

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.

Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.

Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our human actions, opens up the world to the miracle of infinite possibility.

Our brightest dreams and our greatest fears are just over the horizon.

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody.

That’s the problem with following all the rules—somebody else is eventually going to get ahead by breaking them, and then where will you be?

I keep my self updated by reading different books and encyclopedias.

I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent Are quiet trees and the green listening sod; Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent; The hills are mute: yet how they speak of God!

If that happens again someone's gonna get shot.... with an arrow of love!

I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.

My first major role was in a play called Through the Leaves.

The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers.

If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent.

You must always learn to see yourself as a great advancing soul.