[The moon] ... is an example of practiced stability … it wanes when it must, and reliably returns to full strength … it is a humble model of reasonable potential that I can emulate, and follow.

Responsibilities fall heaviest on those willing to take the load.

You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it

Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.

I don't feel like I have to live up to anything because I've proven that I can play. Give me the ball and let's go.

Problems aren’t out there, whatever is missing is what you are not giving, and whatever crisis you are hitting is a call for more of you to come out, for more of you to emerge.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

I'm not that much of a researcher. I'm good at channeling characters, and I'm good at structure.

The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created.

Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.