The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.

If you want him to do it, you've got to change the picture of the world inside his head.

He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood to which an old man returns.

Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get up, but get up in order that you may be able to go back to sleep.

You are dehydrated, " I said. "The result of alcohol taken in excess. But that is the only way to take it. It is the only way to do a man any good.

At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not to preach to them, but to give it to them if they cared to hear it.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.

I come from the world of improv; I love any show or any vehicle that gives me an opportunity to be in the moment.

It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.

True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don't have to be crazy in the medically certifiable sense in order to do massively crazy things.

Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world's tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.

We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.

If life can emerge just from naturalistic circumstances, then God is out of a job.