I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.

Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not impart them. It is within that we should write, think, and speak, not merely on paper.

As a proof that we are regenerated, we must regenerate everything around us.

All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country.

God is a fixed paradise; man should be a paradise in motion.

God placed us on earth to be kings and priests

You're going to struggle. You're going to do well. You can't really let the past or the day before - whether you had a good day or bad day - dictate the day you have that certain day.

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

I've had quite a lot of bad experiences with Japanese sweets. I reckon, Japanese...they can do most things really well but sweets, they're a bit dodgy.

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

I have to save the parts of my soul that are left for the good roles and the true love.

What is our family? We touch our full hearts and see ourselves reflected whole in each other's eyes.

... and what good is a baby?

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.