On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!

A kiss is a lovely trick to stop speech.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.

Give me an hour and I'll make a lifetime out of it.

I regret the things I didn't do, not what I did.

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up.

A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Loving-kindness challenges those states that tend to arise when we think of ourselves as isolated from everyone else—fear, a sense of deficiency, alienation, loneliness.

It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.

Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person

Revival is a divinely initiated work in which God’s people pray, repent of their sin, and return to a holy, Spirit-filled, obedient, love-relationship with God.

And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.

I don't bow down to the federal government.

Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice.

When Jesus started His ministry, the very first thing He did was form a small group.

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.