There's nothing more beautiful than authenticity. There's nothing stronger than vulnerability. There's no better time than now.

Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.

The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings—and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.

Self-love is essential. Until you can learn how to feel loved in an empty room, you will not feel loved for very long in any other room.

There is no quick fix-all procedure to heal your insecurities. Like any relationship, the relationship with yourself must be built and re-built one kind, loving conversation at a time.

Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.

After being around such crazy people, how could I not change too?

No second chances. It's not so much about morality, but about my inability to forgive. I am a champion grudge holder, and I don't think I could change this about myself even if I wanted to.

You have an ocean of love in your heart. Then why are you too stingy to give it away?

If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.

Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.

You said I'm a god. Bring me down from heaven. I...I want you to see me as a man.

I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.

I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.

All the things we value in society don't mean much in fiction.

If aught can teach us aught, Affliction's looks, Making us pry into ourselves so, near, Teach us to know ourselves, beyond all books, Or all the learned schools that ever were.