The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.

There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

Workers can offer guidance for improving the work.

Outside every thin girl is a fat man trying to get in.

I think if you're at the point where you're popular enough to sell your wedding photos to OK! Magazine then you don't need the money.

It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.

The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.

Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against the brutal oppression of the Taliban.

I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.

I am doomed or fortunate to stick to what I do best.

When your team questions your competence, your ability to influence is shot.

I feel very fortunate that I played for the four organizations I did.