But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.

Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.

His entire body was pleading for reassurance, and if her whole love was not enough what else could she give him to cure his doubt?

The sinner is saved by the Saviour.

... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires.

Any cell, tissue, or organ is capable of crying for attention, and when you give it some, the healing process begins.

Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the power which gave it birth-yourself.

A huge problem in movies or with people who work on movies is that two people can look at the same thing but they don't necessarily see the same thing.

Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine - in fact one shudders to imagine - a child of today reading and enjoying it.

Sanity is sometimes a matter of going on, outwardly, as if everything is all right.

Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching