To put failure behind you, face up to it.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

He's like the anti-Ben, but his attention is like a shot of adrenaline.

It's fun to play someone who seems evil and to reveal their vulnerabilities.

Failure is an absolute prerequisite for success. You learn to succeed by failing.

Being on TV and getting everything paid for are the two reasons to do it with us instead of the court of law.

And I always keep cards people send me. I have a whole wall covered with them.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say.

The goal of our sanctification is that we place Christ on display in the way we love others.

The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.

The cup that went down under has now come up again.