Sometimes suffering is just suffering,” she told Gus. “It doesn't make you stronger. It doesn't build character. It only hurts.

There's money, and then there's class. The two are often separated.

Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking.

A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight.

Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective.

Especially in a world that doesn't need homemade anything.That's when we need homemade everything.

The Friday Night Knitting Club

Women do amazing, creative, wonderful things.

Things work out better when you're straight up.

...An honest conversation with anyone is a form of praying.

Whether a person is physically in front of you or not, the love remains.

It was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it's true. It's too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to handle it.

The fulness of the Spirit is not a question of our getting more of the Holy Spirit, but rather of the Holy Spirit getting more of us.

O visionary world condition strange Where naught abiding is but only change.

There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky.

I hate watching myself, as do a lot of actors.

Beware, for as you sleep, the exhausted man will be first to reach the peak.

That's basically the mantra of Herr Silverman's teaching - think for yourself and do what's right for you, but let others do the same.

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you're playing.

I wanted to go to regular high school- it looked like a lot of fun.