People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

I think that modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.

Religious patients seemed to differ little from those without a religion.

The beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Share your wisdom. It is the best way to help in the progress of life and humanity.

I had a maternal instinct once, it lasted 48 hours

Things fit only to give weight to smoke.

A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize.

The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single shot. There's nothing arbitrary.

For me to live in a world that is not inclusive of other people who are not Christian would be the opposite of Christianity.

Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.