Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
Acting is a marvelous profession. . . If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations.
If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us.
We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy.
A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.
We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.
What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?
Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find.
When Fidel Castro is gone, there will be hope for Cuba. There will be opportunity for Cuba.
The world is full of signals that we don't perceive.
Social media doesn’t create negativity, it uncovers it.