I’m always for constructive conversation, meaningful conversation, not just words, but conversation.

You don’t win without talent, but your talent has to have purpose.

Traveling renews you.

The purpose of an army must surely be to put itself out of business

Of the 1,223 new medicines developed between 1975 and 1997, just 13 were for tropical diseases. Only four sprang from the pharmaceutical industry’s efforts to cure humans. None were found on purpose

Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done.

There are no accidents in salvation. Those who are to meet will meet, because together they have the potential for a holy relationship. They are ready for each other.

My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their record collection, so I love everything from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.

To be inauthentic is to live a life devoid of meaning and purpose; it is to lose touch with one’s true self and become alienated from oneself and others.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept, there can be no end save victory.

I’m really, really happy with what I do for a living. I mean, that’s what I consider work, like being on set, bringing a character to life and, you know, working with other actors and directors and stuff.

I was born to stand out. I don’t care whether or not people will find me attractive on screen. That’s not why I became an actor. I know that more and more with each new role.

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

There was a touch of mysticism and poetry in her nature which made her love to gaze at the purple sunsets and watch the evening stars

Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended – to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.

You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.