Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe.

Wonder begets culture, which begets yet more wonder, and the end of wonder is wisdom, which is the state of perpetual wonder.

Solitude, the joy of being alone, stems from, as well as promotes, a state of maturity and inner richness.

Depression is our way of telling ourselves that something is seriously wrong and needs working through and changing.

Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.

As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what I fear more than that is spending my life in the coat closet.

Oh hell no, I thought. I am not wasting my first kiss on some guy who's skipping out on our first date.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence race is the principle of physical analogy.

The United States can hide behind a facade simply because it is sucking the blood of other people...The Third World people: Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Look for ways to be a blessing. Simple words of encouragement can brighten somebody’s day.

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.

So many things become beautiful when you really look.

I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.