The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

When you can share the lessons you learnt through tears and heartache and others find life in it and are better off for it, then beauty has come out of those ashes.

Certainly no beast has essayed the boundless, infinitely inventive art of human hatred. No beast can match its range and power.

it's definitely best for little children to have a regular life, especially if they can regulate it themselves.

I am giving my best in the pursuit of my most cherished dreams.

The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile endure awhile believe always and never turn back.

My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.

It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

Why is it always the world? Why is it never just half a block? Or Jersey? You know, something we could live without?