When someone sings his own praises he always gets the tune too high.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

I doubt very much that writers ever go to therapy. I wouldn't! I imagine that I wouldn't have anything to write about after!

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words-wait and hope.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

I got a massive overdose of gamma radiation from the Xerox machine and just printing call sheets, you know? By the time I stepped in front of the camera, I was very comfortable. It was great.

There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons.

My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.