No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.

Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body.

Love is the feeling that emanates from the heart and extends through the blood to every cell of the body.

Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance.

Because we are afraid of life, we seek to control or master it.

Despair is the only cure for illusion.

If the ego is inflated it must be gradually deflated.

It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.

The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.

Life is not a mixture of matter and energy but energy in matter, bound in such a way that dissociation is impossible so long as the living process continues.

The path to joy leads through despair.

When you see, not only intellectually but with your heart too, how we are all connected, how can you harm another? It's the same as harming oneself.

The greatest thing anyone can do for God and man is pray. It is not the only thing

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

When I choose to smile I become the master of my emotions.

Is she crazy, like it says on her bracelet, or is she just looking at my sheets? I dunno!

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: 'Someone has to succeed. There's no reason why it shouldn't be me.' Repeat before every audition.

I fell completely in love with acting. I guess I was bitten.

The common denominator is that we want to make the world a better place, for women and for everybody, and we do it through sport.