Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.

The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts. And therefore the universe changes.

I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.

Always walk towards open doors. And if they slam shut in your face, kick that sucker in and keep going.

I can’t remember that I was ever looking for anything. I was waiting for something to touch me. It’s like, I’ll be open to it, and see if it moves me. There has to be a "falling in love" moment.

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.

Everyone responds to kindness.

There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.

I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies!

The Constitution was framed in order to form a more perfect union, not to establish mass confusion.

I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.

Atlantis will rise again.

A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent....They are being conscripted.

If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility.

No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Reatles' White Album?

Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'