I realize that I can laugh, that it is possible to be happy, that laughter and hope can come back to me.

War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.

Due to your merit karma, your efforts will bring you success and when the merit karma is expended, your efforts will bring in losses.

I won't say that you're pretty because that dog already did. And I won't say you're funny because you have had me laughing since I met you.

In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive. And wehave no right to do that—we never have had, not since the creation of the world.

Dave learned that Death is the opposite of peace: it’s struggle, it’s ugly, it’s horrific, it’s dirty. And ultimately, Death is emptiness.

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

A gym for the soul is a place where personal investment is required and the return is real.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.

Loyalty is the greatest quality of the human heart.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.