Human life is an incongruous combination of tragedy and comedy.

Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.

We bring happiness into the world one day at a time by accepting pain and returning understanding and compassion.

Life goes on without regard to our whims. What we make of life is what counts, how we address the challenges in our lives determines our respective levels of personal accomplishment and happiness.

The only recourse for an escape artist from world affairs is to explore their inner sanctum where hopes, dreams, insecurities, and despair collide.

Hope is a form of conscious dream making

Hope is a form of conscious dream making.

A person tied to the world of sorrows can return to nature for inspiration. Nature provides solace to troubled hearts.

Life introduces us to the gentle, cosmic rhythms of an extraneous world. What is objective truth might exceed human capacity to ever fully perceive, comprehend, and explain.

Parents’ transmit their attitude towards education to children via soundless, aphonic messages.

The emotional ingredients that sustain long-term relationships are kindness, thoughtfulness, and compassion.

Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.

If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.

I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.

I take classified materials very seriously and always have.

I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.

wheresoever the earth may be placed, or whithersoever it may be carried by its animal faculty, heavy bodies will always be carried towards it.

At the end of the day, successful box office just means that more people saw what you did and liked it, and that to me is the most important thing. That a lot of people saw it and liked it.

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

I always have applesauce in my fridge, and when traveling I take protein bars just in case I get hungry. They're my go-to snack.