The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

Innocence is the beginning of ignorance. Experience is the end of stupidity.

Inspire others without expecting anything in return. True joy is in giving.

Love is fickle, building relationship is rare

Creativity is achieved in the doing, it's not achieved in the thinking.

Our larger body is eternity. Eventually, we return to the source in its undifferentiated form, in its absolute form, which is both form and formlessness, but we exist in that sea all the time.

I think everybody's book is about somebody's daughter, in a lot of ways. I dig that.

Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you can change

The 24 Hour Plays is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.

I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.