If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy.

There is no choice between being kind to others, and being kind to ourselves. It is the same thing.

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.

Giving kindness does as much good as receiving it...Kind people are healthier and live longer.

Being kind is the simplest way to become who we really are.

If we could be sure of everyone and everything, trust would have no value

It's all really very simple. You don't have to choose between being kind to yourself and others. It's one and the same.

We are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we may learn from them.

We can proceed according to the planned itinerary, strenuously trying to make life conform to our needs, or we can adapt to whatever we meet and flow without effort.

Generosity is, by definition, disinterested.

The transition from rebellion to acceptance has an extremely important consequence. . . in which we start seeing life as a training school, to teach us what we need to learn.

Pure love is an unmediated, unmitigated, and unrevealing, but everlasting source of joy for the giver and for the receiver.

As I understand it, a universe is a ... well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.

I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own.

You?' is all I can manage to choke out. 'Always me,' she replies softly, bashfully. 'Who else?

I think the director is becoming more important. To work under rushed conditions, you need to have an extremely professional director. If the director's good than the end result will be good.

I like having some things very clear while other things are obscured... so that it kind of keeps coming into and out of focus.

I think it's the same simple thing for everyone - to be happy, and have love in your life.

I'm not here to cast aspersions on anyone. I'm trying to unify the party, not find fault.

I rubbed the contents of one bag onto my upper arm on the evening of June 7, just before I went to bed. I thought: Well, it can't hurt. I flushed the packaging down the toilet.

Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.