Rich said, "As your get older, feelings are harder to come by." It was so simple and poignant.

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that you're not serving their idea of you.

It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

Switching off perfection switched on the human quality

If you are not good at speeches, be good at your actions.

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at.

My tendency to internalize emotion is probably why I'm an actor. I'm comfortable performing angrily but have such difficulty expressing anger in my life.

Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes!

When we meet with better fare than was expected, the disappointment is overlooked even by the unscrupulous. When we meet with worse than was expected, philosophers alone know how to make it better.

I believe in freedom of expression, I don't believe in censorship.

The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.