The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself

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.

People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

...wary as any burnt child with an unfamiliar fire to contend with.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice.

Well, the clothes are really cool that we wear. The sets are so funny, because it's like everything is so real.

I can't worry about what other people say.

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.

I would far rather add a character who generates strong feelings than someone who just kind of floats along, generating medium-warmth smiles of gentle affirmation.

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.