“Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.”

Fear builds walls to bar the light.

The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing.

I am going out one door, and shall go through another.

From every human being there rises a light.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.

Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.

Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering – you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself.

When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever.

Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God’s curriculum.

Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.

Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, “For my sake, the entire world was created.”

For my sake, the entire world was created.

He who is full of joy is full of love.

To pull a friend out of the mire, don’t hesitate to get dirty.

Pleasures are manifestations of God’s name.

If a man has beheld evil, he may know that it was shown to him in order that he learn his own guilt and repent; for what is shown to him is also within him.

People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.

Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.

I love sharing my story. It’s endlessly healing.

The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you’re always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You’re always protected.

All the backstories are there but not talked about.

I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel… I sort of get very excited and fed by.