The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

A great man is made so for others.

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

The Devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions.

How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that it has forced me to go deeply within myself to get a very very rock solid sense, to myself, of who I am.

I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse.