All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.

Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.

Her shut-eyed smile transformed itself into something else: the smile of someone brave and knowing, someone whose pain had made her wise.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.

Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.

You know what 'Dolores' means? It's Latin, means sadness. Our Lady of Sorrow. Why are you so sad?

What if I don’t like adventure?Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.

You can be two things if you're a woman, Dolores. Betty Crocker or a floozy. Just remember your place - even if it kills you.

Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That’s what life’s all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

What comes from the heart will go to the heart

Once you start loving what’s inside, the outside falls in love with you.

You are the Arabian stallion that neighs on the crossroad of my heart ache covering me with the dust of my own ardor.

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.

Once you win, you have no doubt that you can win. So you have gone through it once, and you can do it again.

People will tell you that I overcame obstacles? Maybe. But the truth is I was incredibly blessed in my life. More was given than was ever taken away.

I'd love to do just straight theatre. I'd love to do film and television, too.

By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.