Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.

Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.

Heaven is not located on high, but where the good of love is, and this resides within a person, wherever he or she might be.

Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.

The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.

For those who trust in the Divine all things are moving towards an everlasting state of happiness, and no matter what happens at any time to them, it contributes to that state.

Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.

Our love is our life itself. What our love is like determines how we live and therefore everything about what we are as human beings.

Conscience is God's presence in humans.

That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

I need yoga every single day.

Time is that which is manufactured by clocks.

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.

Did you know that Allah promises you a seat in Paradise if you kill a Christian?

And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.

I would rather die a thousand deaths than surrender.

Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.