A kind life...is fundamentally a life of courage.

When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.

If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbath— our pneumonia, our cancer, our heart attack, our accidents create Sabbath for us.

To pray is no small thing. It is nothing less than a sacred pilgrimage into the heart of the whole world.

What if the healing of the world utterly depends on the ten-thousand invisible kindnesses we offer simply and quietly throughout the pilgrimage of each human life?

For thousands of years we have gathered in circle--around fires, around bodies, around altars--because we can't do this alone.

Gratitude invites a sense of sufficiency.

Our lives are made of these moments. Simple words and actions, taken together, weave a single day, and our days become our life. Every gesture is a seed, and the seed determines the harvest.

The last place we tend to look for healing is within ourselves.

What we choose to love is very important for what we love leads our eyes, ears, and hearts on a pilgrimage that shapes the texture of our lives.

When we do what we love, again and again, our life comes to hold the fragrance of that thing.

That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors.

No great thing comes without a curse.

What matters is the people. We must ensure that the United Nations is supported by the people and that it reflects the will of the people.

I'm quite good at switching off and sometimes I forget who I am in a character.

I like when you watch a film and you feel like you're a part of somebody's life for an hour and a half.

Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach.

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

We won (the pennant) because we've got a superior ball club. Not many stars perhaps, but the kind of team that always plays well together.

If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.

Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.