Be fearless enough to let love transform you.

Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.

The place of true healing is a fierce place. It's a giant place. it's a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light.

You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.

The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.

Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love.

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

Real change happens on the level of the gesture. It's one person doing one thing differently than he or she did before.

To us, they are not so much who they are as who they will become.

There are so many torturous things in this life. Don't let a man who doesn't love you be one of them.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, my lord. You are an evil man.

Very happy or unhappy, people disappear.

People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.

I love that feeling of going into a packed theater.

Don't talk about death, I've got too much life to live, To many orders to give.

The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask.

House of Leaves is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear - and it was my aim to address that - but its also about recovering from fear.

Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world

I've got to live my life the way I feel is right for me. Might not be right for you, but it's right for me.

Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.