We don't forgive because people deserve it, we forgive so we can see again.

In a lot of minds, God is big enough to raise dead people, but He's not big enough to deal with our running.

We are the ones who have distanced ourselves from God and then we've blamed him for the distance.

Humanity is a comic role.

One cannot help but be in awe when [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

Ellen Barkin, your upcoming TV show ‘The New Normal’ premiers on September 11th. September 11th, that sounds about right. Every clip I’ve seen feels like I’m watching a third tower collapse.

I wish I could just accept that I'm not that good and not be shy about the fact that I'm not that professional.

You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

We grew up in the good old days before kids had these damn computers and actually played outside.

Youth is insolent; it is its right - its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence.

When you really put your heart in the work, you don't think of how you look. And I think that's the beauty of it.

I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat and I built a boat.