The United States is at a turning point because of a decreasing influence of faith .

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.

Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.

Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.

In our day it's worse to judge evil than to do evil.

What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in the blood.

Qualia is an experiential state of the conscious mind.

To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.

The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.

I am very, very anti-slasher.

I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.

I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people who care about the future of classical music.

Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace.

Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable.

Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.

My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.