Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth -- by man I mean man and woman.

No longer possessed by possessions, we may become open enough to become possessed by God.

People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.

If you can't be good, be good at it!

Mind over matter represents the triumph of will over physical hindrance. Our thoughts are our weapon against the world.

To resist a compulsion with willpower alone is to hold back an avalanche by melting the snow with a candle. It just keeps coming and coming and coming.

Officially, it is no more possible to be a little bit OCD than it is to be a little bit pregnant or a little bit dead.

It is not what you give your friend but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of your friendship.

The torrent of the reaching shade Broke shadow into all its parts, What then had been of shadow made Found exigence in fits and starts.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

For knowledge, too, is itself power.

My main thing is to chill with my kids. My daughter loves to work, as well-she loves to record and stuff-so I like to work with her.

The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!

When you're on set, you have to perform and look the part.

When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.

Remember, don't try to build the greatest wall that's ever been built. Focus on laying a single, expertly-placed brick. Then keep doing that, every day.

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.