The process of finding happiness within one's own Self may be difficult and slow but it cannot be found anywhere else.

In truth, he who is not content with what he has would not be content with whatever he acquires.

The law of life is that the mind should be at rest while the body engages in action.

Do not fall in love, but rise in love

Work in a way that you look forward to Monday mornings

Do not lose the treasure of your Self for the pleasure of the senses.

It's not the world that distresses you but how you relate to it.

Opportunity always knocks

...I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get rid of that book....

I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.

Brad [Dourif] would tell himself that he was not intentionally trying to mimic Jack Nicholson in any way. I think that actually bothers him a little bit. I just think maybe they have similar voices.

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.

I've been very passionate about animals for as long as I can remember, and ever since I became an actress, I've always done my best to get involved with animal charities and such.

South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world.

How to save the old that's worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.

I didn't want to play there when I first found out I was sold to Brooklyn, but I'm tickled to death. I'm glad I could play in Brooklyn.

Without faith there is no truth, for that is all the truth is or ever was.