The strongest force in our universe is not overriding power, but love.

When you are in psychological distress and someone really hears you without passing judgement on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good!

I am isolated. I sit in a glass ball, I see people through a glass wall. I scream, but they do not hear me.- Ellen West

I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful.

The intolerant "true believer" is a menace to any field, yet I suspect each one of us finds traces of that person in ourself.

Money is a by-product of time.

They say the silence is the language of God, but so is music. This is why we dance, we become loud in our silence.

Genius is full of trash.

It strikes me as unfortunate that this approach - affording the same dignity to and investing in the same quality for a poor child as you would for your own - is so often received as provocative.

Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are fixed and enduring

What’s wrong with you? Are you ill? I forbid you to be ill, wife.

Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.

I do my best; I put out things I believe in and if you don't like it then pass on to something else.

I'm 51 now, so there are less roles available.

He was in a slow-motion mood-one of my favorites, though it meant i'd be driven crazy before we were done.