That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.

I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown man to call a job.

I don't want to rely on something that could be taken away at some point.

I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees.

When life sucks, read. They can't yell at you for that. And if they do, then you can ignore them.

For every positive change you make in your life, something else also changes for the better - it creates a chain reaction.

You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.

In order to create art today, you have to compromise your art somewhat and be a businessman.

Around you move many seas. It is impossible not to drown a little.

I hate commas in the wrong places.