If you can see the terrorists as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.

The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts. And therefore the universe changes.

I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.

Always walk towards open doors. And if they slam shut in your face, kick that sucker in and keep going.

I can’t remember that I was ever looking for anything. I was waiting for something to touch me. It’s like, I’ll be open to it, and see if it moves me. There has to be a "falling in love" moment.

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.

Everyone responds to kindness.

There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.

I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

I am extremely happy walking on the downs...I like to have space to spread my mind out in.

YOU might be limited by a life situation, but GOD is never hampered. Praise Him!

Let the schools teach the nobility of labour and the beauty of human service: but the superstitions of ages past? Never!

People can call you many different things, but you are not what people call you. You are what you answer to.

Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.

Sometimes you don't get but one mistake, if the one you pick is bad enough.

Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not reveal itself at first.

I am not going to sit here and say I am never going to drink again. That is not realistic.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

Why cross and ocean when you can cross a river? Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here?