We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.

Animals don't think in terms of victims and villains, or good and bad, or evil, or shame.

I don't think that any family has a function. I just think that a family is. It just exists.

Shame doesn't exist in the animal kingdom. It's a human conception.

What we gotta do is, we gotta figure out a way to reverse gravity, so that we all fall upward, through the clouds and sky, all the way to Heaven.

Everybody’s got rights. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man down in a dungeon got rights. A little screaming baby got rights. Yeah, you got rights. What you don’t got is power.

I totally bristle against words like "dysfunction" or "abuse."

It is not the beauty of nature, but it is our dream-filled actions that create our futures.

Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals

You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.

You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.

If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.

The war on drugs has failed in West Africa and around the world

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.

The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already on the path of emancipation.

When we see the secret beauty of anyone, including ourselves, we see past our judgment and fear into the core of who we truly are - not an entrapped self but the radiance of goodness.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . .