Without compassion, you will never truly connect with another human being.

People who judge you are often themselves craving approval.

Kindness is contagious. When we are kind, then we inspire others to be kind.

Harshness is the enemy of gratitude.

Begin to think of how you could maximize the time you have through hard work and through concentration.

That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him.

I was an altar boy in the Roman Catholic Church and no priest ever laid a hand on me. That's me, always the bridesmaid.

What shall we do, all of us? All of us oassionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, our watermelon hearts?

I believe there is something on this earth that you desire more than anything, and it isn't me.

Well, everybody does something, some people race cars, others collect stamps, I find tai chi to be philosophically, aesthetically, physically and spiritually fascinating.

Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.

I go and film 50 people in Israel, 50 people in Russia, and 50 people in Romania, in Paris, because I really like to get some particles of something real.

Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

All genuine progress results from finding new facts