Love, like everything else, exists in a spectrum. Love of another, love of the world, love of God, all these loves are really one love in different degrees of light and density.

When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in: this world, and also the invisible world of meaning that sustains everything that was and ever shall be.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

Athos was delighted to find he was going to fight an Englishman. We might say that was his dream.

God has given all of us both the mind and the heart. And He fully expects us to use them

Note: addiction diverts attention

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would've gotten an album deal.

One of the things that most people aren't aware of when they think of the Civil War is the number of people and associated animals. (Armies) weren't mechanized. They had to rely on horses and mules.

What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia?

This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.

Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.