Generosity is, by definition, disinterested.

There is no choice between being kind to others, and being kind to ourselves. It is the same thing.

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.

Giving kindness does as much good as receiving it...Kind people are healthier and live longer.

If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy.

Being kind is the simplest way to become who we really are.

If we could be sure of everyone and everything, trust would have no value

It's all really very simple. You don't have to choose between being kind to yourself and others. It's one and the same.

We are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we may learn from them.

We can proceed according to the planned itinerary, strenuously trying to make life conform to our needs, or we can adapt to whatever we meet and flow without effort.

The transition from rebellion to acceptance has an extremely important consequence. . . in which we start seeing life as a training school, to teach us what we need to learn.

The present is the closest that you will ever get to the future.

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

What makes you so lavish that you can afford to spend every sober moment feeling angry and bored?

Being on set and seeing all that green screen, and how it activated my imagination, was amazing to me. I fell into that world very easily, and it was incredible to be a part of.

He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon.

Justice for all children is the high ideal in a democracy.

Poverty ... is already half-Christian by its very nature; it has everything to gain by a doctrine which makes so little of the present and the visible, and so much of the future and the unseen.

There were times when David Souter thought of Bush v. Gore and wept.

If you decide you're going to do the piece, you're doing it because you love the writing.

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.