No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today.

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant.

The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. Take joy.

The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see - and to see we have only to look.

Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there.

Courage you have, and the knowledge that we are all pilgrims together, wending through unknown country, home.

Life is so full of meaning and of purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find that earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage, then to claim it: that is all!

I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.

Forget about how old you are, and get busy.

The person you are sleeping with signifies the value upon which you have for yourself. You are attracted to who echoes your deepest thoughts of yourself

Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.

Spiritual awareness is not only one of the keys to the healing process. Spiritual awareness is the only way that healing can occur.

The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.

There are no accidents so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advantage from them.

I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different.

What makes an actor, I think, is a combination of a deep curiosity about life and a case of the crazies.

No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

It is in that which you love the most that you find the greatest tests.