Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all of us want love. Everything else is a consolation prize. What matters is love.

Perhaps the greatest gift we can offer each other is a second chance.

Individuals who deliberately decide not to take offense lead happier, more productive lives.

Happiness is not the result of circumstance. It is the result of loving others.

Hoping and dreaming of a better world are not enough if we are unwilling to work - but when we work towards our dreams, wonderful things can happen.

Show me a person in my shoes who is looking for a robot, and I'll show you someone who is looking for a person and can't find one.

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance.

Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.

A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.

When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw.

Most of the people are homesick anyway, and a little lonely, and they hide themselves in their hair and are turned into flowers.