Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial.

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.

Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

I'm very polite by nature, even the voices in my head let each other finish their sentences.

If you're a square peg in a society full of round holes, it's time to change the playing board.

Truth falls from the heavens like rain, gently carving many channels in the earth. Your truth may be different from my own, yet both are still true.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.

The greatest progress in life is when you know your limitations, and then you have the courage to drop them.

I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish.

When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you have to thank this audience.

We know each other in a way that no one else can. We share a history that makes us permanently connected.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.