Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light...And let it breathe.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

Are you too frightened to go any farther?" asked the silk-monkey, who found all this very easy, having four legs herself."I'm never afraid, " answered Sniff. "But I think the view is better from here.

The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!

The father is the head of the home; the mother is the heart of the home; the children are the reward, the joy and the life of the home.

I was so tired of the parts I had to play. There seems little for me in Hollywood, because, rather than real Chinese, producers prefer Hungarians, Mexicans, American Indians for Chinese roles.

If people have a passion for anything they tend to get quite good at it.

I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.

How do you conduct an intimate relationship where no one ever loses it? Where no one ever lashes out, where no one ever smacks anyone in the mouth?

Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.