The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

In a time of destruction, create something.

In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.

Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.

I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas and pursue our abstract imaginings.

I was always spiritual, even as a child. I was taught to pray, show gratitude. We had an attitude of gratitude. Even if life was ugly, bad or sad - we prayed.

I've been a serial monogamist my whole life so I think at this point I'm just going to take a break.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

Their issues are not your issues.

You can't just wish for a better life, you must go out there and create it.

When you are on the podium nobody is asking you if you are 15 or 30 years old. What matters is who can do great gymnastics.

We live our lives from A-Z, but forget the other 24 letters in between.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor.