I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

I never fall in love.

Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community’s well being. If you’re dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.

This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don’t know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister’s clothes in order to save money.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

I wasn’t going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

Smiles are the language of love.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Do not be afraid to ask for help. Nobody gets through college on their own.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

I used to have nightmares that they would put ‚He played Ted‘ on my tombstone.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

My mom and I are very close.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Acting is happy agony.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

When you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

Every loss of life is terrible.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.