Tell me truly, I implore-- Is there-- is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

We are always fascinated with the past, but the future is always brighter.

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

The real power of a leader is in the number of minds he can reach, hearts he can touch, souls he can move, and lives he can change.

Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.

I don't see the risk, I enjoy performing stunts, and I don't get scared.

I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.

The example my parents set, both in and outside of our household, helped me understand that we all have a specific purpose in life--to give back to society.

Paradoxes are useful to attract attention to ideas.

Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.

I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.