"There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums."

"If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they're really having a hard time."

"Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not."

"I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor."

"It is a timeless truth that art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection."

"You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway."

"Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room."