Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

Don't think. Get out of your head. Stop planning and just go.

The way we have to measure progress is not, "Is there ever going to be an incident of racism in the country?" It's, "How does the majority of our country respond?"

Unfortunately, there's a lot of people in high places who understand the science but don't like where the policy leads them: too much government control.

I was always a 'grass is greener' kind of guy.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot.

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.

In Texas, we have the death penalty, and we use it. That's right. If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back.

We have to get the word out that mental illnesses can be diagnosed and treated, and almost everyone suffering from mental illness can live meaningful lives in their communities.

The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.