You cannot fight hate and violence with more hate and violence, any more than you can conquer darkness with more darkness. Adding darkness only increases blackness. To subtract shadow, add light.

If not in the moment, where do you propose to live?

Hearts break along the same lines they broke before, I find, and they hurt no less in the rebreaking.

An option means decision, and a decision means acknowledging something is wrong and the shame one can no longer hide from.

Naama Yehuda ‏@NaamaYehuda · 42s42 seconds ago Sometimes when the path is obscured all we can do is find the best way through the current moment and hope things will clear up ahead.

When hearts speak, they touch each other and transform the deepest sorrow.

Be happy for things that work.

Men who hit do so because they can...someplace they enjoy or need to humiliate another. There is no love in violence, only control and domination.

For children who depend on mentally escaping into their minds to survive, imagination can become both refuge and desert island.

However they coped, children are not wrong to have learned to do what they could.

Today, make time to play.

There is an emptiness in my soul that only you can fill up!

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things.

Nine times out of ten it's a minor shift in your focus and your attitude that makes the difference.

I don't think you necessarily have to put away your summer closet to go into fall. You can incorporate the fall pieces into your normal summer wardrobe.

My mom used to tell me: It's not what you weigh; it's what you look like.

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy.

All religions are the same. They all lead to God. God is everybody.