Living in light of eternity changes your priorities.
Insanity is just a state of mind.
There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well - that really makes me happy. The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won't do what you've done before.
As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.
I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
. . . all people needed was time and then they could figure most things out of themselves.
We are Germans. We are Armenians. French, Italian, Russian, American, Asian, African. . . many other nationalities. We are Christians, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu. We are black, we are white. We are a community of some many differences, so complex and yet so simple. We do not need to have war!
Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.