The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.

Praise, more divine than prayer; prayer points our ready path to heaven; praise is already there.

As an actor, you wouldn't be able to play a character if you were worried about the reaction to what you're doing.

Little pitchers have big ears.

People can't see what's in your heart - they can only see what you do.

Right now I can't be sure that I will be back on stage. We have been touring for two years and that is way too much.

There’s a morning when presence comes over your soul. You sing like a rooster in your earth-colored shape. Your heart hears and, no longer frantic, begins to dance.

Depression is like a headache or true love or any of those indefinable concepts. If you've never been there, you don't know what it's like until you're too far in to stop the process.