Don't try to blame the pain on anyone. Blaming others won't erase the pain.

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.

The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions.

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers.

Better to lose money in a good company rather than making money in a bad one.

SEEK THE ADVENTURES OF THE HEART. THEY LEAD YOU TO ETERNAL BLISS!

Interpreting dreams for Iranians was just as much a sacrament as reading coffee cups was for Turks

I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity.

Michael had always thought that seeing ghosts was stressful. Those wandering spirits were nothing compared to whatever women had going through their heads at all odd hours of the day.

Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.

When people's emotions are involved they don't want to listen.

The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar.

I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there.You have to trust the director and react to nothing.

There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.