Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

I've become a much more serious young insect.

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.

A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times.

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

We live in a society that worships youth. On television, in magazines, in advertisements and on billboards, what sells and what is sold to us is youth.

The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.

Real inspiration are not people, but their stories.

The curse of having young people about the house was that they were always so redolent of possibility.

So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.

Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace.

God stands ready to allocate his power to all who are radically dependent on Him and radically devoted to making much of Him.

When you admire others, you become one with them and the world loves you.

Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs.

The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine period. And yet what a privilege it is to be even a beggar in Rome!

It's enthusiasm, not apathy, that makes the world go 'round.