Family will always kill you -- some bit by bit, others all at once. It is the love that does it.

The idea that people who guarded you could also be the people that you needed guarding from was nothing anyone should have to learn.

Nothing is dark when you embosom your own light within you

To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.

Men who cannot exploit the co-operative benefits derived from institutions in modern knowledge economies are discriminated against by girls and so have fewer children

So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.

Peak performance is meditation in motion.

What's important to me is that there's a necessary alienation between me and the subject. I don't want to know them well. I don't want to have any intimate contact with them.

A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.

Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?

I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years

I want to tell people that family violence happens to anybody, no matter how nice your house is, no matter how intelligent you are.