Stand up for yourself by not standing yourself up.

Follow your heart. Then root its longing with the facts.

No moment is too small to claim. Strung together, moments fashion a life.

Risk: no full life occurs without it.

Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularlyso every stretch won’t feel like your first.

Mistakes help to sharpen your next steps. They don’t prove that you shouldn’t try again.

Each of us has our definition of adventure: ending an unsatisfyingrelationship, returning to school, parachute jumping or training for amarathon. Go ahead. Get your thrill on.

We can talk about it, dream about it and dissect the fine print.In the end, only action satisfies our longing.

To believe that we can have what we want is an act of trust – not only of others but also, ourselves.

If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life’s blessings.

The study book for life’s tests is the whole of our experience. Though we mayfeel unprepared, tests appear only when we are truly ready to ace them.

In my view, one of the major reasons that we have so many people in jail is that we have turned our backs on a lot young people.

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.

To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment--are all the blackest of black lies.

Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

You can't have real pain without real love. You can't feel grief and loss and hurt without real love. Love is the only way you can ever be really hurt deep down.

I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.

The Plus Factor makes its appearance in a person's life in proportion as that person is in harmony with God and His universal laws.

I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.