What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in the blood.

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.

Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.

Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.

In our day it's worse to judge evil than to do evil.

Follow your instincts - you never know if your ideas will work out unless you try them.

Sometimes the burden of love is heavier than a heavy heart

Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates.

If you ride like lightning, you're gonna crash like thunder.

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.

Citizenship is the right to have rights.

Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.

It's very rare to get a film script that has good dialogue. A lot of the time, you spend on film sets really fighting to find out how to say the words.

As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in much poison.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.