My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

... lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares.

Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.

Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?

Prosperity's disciples build careful bastions against age and change.

If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.

The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one.

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

It is sad but true that many business people have no business being in business.

Love must become the essence of our being

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly there, that if you cannot detect it, you are deceived.

But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.

You must beware of seeing malice behind accidental injury.

Move every day. Like taking a shower and brushing your teeth. Make it a part of your everyday life.

The Dalai Lama challenged me - he said, 'Why can't you use technological tools to study kindness and compassion?