It’s good to have obstacles and difficulties, and to fail and have things not go the way you want. And then have to figure out how to keep moving forward.

It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best for them. And it seems so hard, and it's frustrating.

The people I know who suffer from mental illness, sometimes they do connect you to what it is to be really human. There's a vulnerability there, there's something very potent.

I know people for whom the search for how to be well has been a positive journey. It's empowering to face your issues and try and take care of yourself. It can be positive too.

When you make a movie, it's a movie, and things change based on who you put in the movie. And so it's, you know, obviously not exactly your life, but I feel that I did learn a lot about my parents.

Something good happens to you, and you let off a different energy that attracts other good things.

Got a lot of sinful idears--but they seem kinda sensible.

It's better to shut a fool's mouth with sarcasm rather than cursing him back.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.

Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.

Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.

I've always had control of what I played on the air. I have always had very open ears.

I don't want to call the show [ "Mary and Jane" ] a satire because it is not, but there are satirical elements.

Whoever prays for those who hurt him lays the demons low; but he who opposes his affronter is bound to the demons.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves, and it remains when all else is gone.