If evil exists its to be found in our fears.

We can't choose our lives, but we can decide what to do with the joys or griefs we're given.

See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.

A dream is always risky, for there is a price to pay.

Then I realize that words like "optimism" and "hope" which appear in all those self-help books that claim they'll make us more confident and better to cope with life, are just that: words.

It was only a matter of time. She would love him before the week was out and it would be gloriously terrible, wonderfully hopeless.

Every child in South Florida can dance. And every child there is amazing.

When things don't go right, go left

Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.

What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape or in form?

Prayer doesn’t work in the way that you think. If you pray for good health and it is genuine, you might be coming into sickness. The essence of good health has to do with a most delicate well-being.

Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.

Animals are not property or "things" but rather living organisms, subjects of a life, who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship, and support.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet.