There is no getting away from the past or from one’s destiny.

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

Betty had forgotten how you only get slivers of stories from children - usually what they echo from overheard adult conversations.

Society has parted man from man, neglectful of the universal heart.

Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.

Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas .

And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.

I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there.

We actually talked about Adam Sandler during the creation of 'Trolls,' because he does know how to time jokes.