We need justice. We need toleration, honesty and moral courage. These are modern virtues without which we cannot hope to control the forces science has let loose among us.

The days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, I have really good days.

First deal with your own tears; tomorrow do something about acid rain.

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak, We shall live well--we shall live very well.

Buddha was not a Christian, but Jesus would have made a good Buddhist.

It's not any more unusual to be born twice than it is to be born once.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

I stare across the table at Jeremy, and wonder if I will make it through our first date without trying to kill him.

Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.

I fell in love with Neil's pain. We were in this cocoon of intensity. Neil and I were uniquely in the same position at the same time, having overwhelming success facing us.

I'm not into bikinis or other revealing clothing.

Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.

Believing in people before they have proved themselves is the key to motivating people to reach their potential.

We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

See yourself living in abundance and you will attract it.

When love leaves the world, all hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell them of my pain and tell them of my hope, which still lives. For this is all I have and all I am and all I ask.