Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places.

The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God.

Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.

The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference.

Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.

Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques

To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.

The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak.

I show my scars so that others know they can heal.

Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot

Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.

I'm not selling out, denying who I am or where I've come from, not at all. I acknowledge that.

I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'

I have learned over the years that the nicest thing I can do is to just say to myself, "Good Morning Darling, I love you; we're going to have a really great day today."

We must try to contribute joy to the world... I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

Love is the fundamental relatedness in the universe.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless.