I'm afraid I did not pray hard enough last night.

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.

Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.

We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.

Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.

That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.

I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.

There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as I see it: to keep the spark of life inside me ablaze.

Go and have another look at the roses. And you will understand that yours is indeed unique in all the world.

Desire to know God.

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.

When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.

There's art on the show that's really bad - these cliché Abstract Expressionist gestural things. It's almost like extensions of my performance, because in the scene I'm really mad.

Amateurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until it can't go wrong.

All of my life people have thought of me as Bing Crosby's daughter. Now they'll remember me as the person who shot J.R.

Every end is a beginning...And every beginning is an end.

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.