But maybe as I get older, I begin to see beauty where I least expected it before.

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.

A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.

Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path , All they do is trip you up

Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.

Each day has a color, a smell.

That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.

There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!

The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.

I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!

Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment?

Children's voices - even those who couldn't carry the tune - are always appealing.

Time doesn’t heal anything. It’s like drinking. The best it can do is help you forget, if you’re lucky.

There are two kinds of love: the love that is and the love that isn't.

My father gave me these hints on speech making: Be sincere ... be brief ... be seated.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.

The future is a monotonous instrument

I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home.

I personally kind of yearn to play characters who are complex and who strike a truthful chord in me and who are challenged in some way and, I guess, who kind of move through those challenges.

Internationally, I have as large of a fan base - if not larger - than I have domestically.