“People only see what they are prepared to see.”

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

You are constantly invited to be what you are.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

The years teach much the days never know.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

If conservatives get to call universal healthcare ‘socialized medicine,’ I get to call private, for-profit healthcare ‘soulless, vampire bastards making money off human pain.’

Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.

But separate a man from his car – that’s inhuman.

Nelson Mandela, a better man, not a bitter man, made our world a better place in which to live. His life and leadership exemplify the highest courage, dignity, and dedication to human liberation.

It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.

You cannot believe in peace at home and not believe in international peace. A war with Iraq will increase anti-American sentiment, create more terrorists, and drain as much as 200 billion taxpayer dollars, which should be invested in human development here in America.

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you’re really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.