To keep a vow, means not to keep from breaking it, but rather to devote the rest of one's life to discovering what the vow means, and to be willing to change and to grow accordingly.

We like to talk about having the faith to be healed - what about the faith to be sick?.

How tragic that the very thing that could set us free-playing the fool-is the thing we will not do. When we're afraid to be fools, we end up being afraid to be anything.

It is easier to diminish God than it is to enlarge one's heart.

True worship has less to do with offering sacrifices than with being a sacrifice ourselves.

Love is an earthquake that relocates the center of the universe.

And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean.

Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when compared with the actual experience.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Love is not altogether a delirium yet it has many points in common therewith.

American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace.

I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids' films.

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.

It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.

I've always been amused by [Bob] Dylan; I don't think he's been amused by me.

I don’t get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character - do we do this or that or what. At the end of the day, what you gotta do is just go out there and do it.

Other people's opinions of you are none of your business.