If we don't fight for what we 'stand for' with our passionate words and honest actions, do we really 'stand' for anything?

Nothing renews my faith in humanity more than the exchange of compassion so profound that mere words cannot embrace it.

The problem with having problems is that ‘someone’ always has it worse.

No one loses their innocence. It is either taken or given away willingly.

Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.

Authenticity is not an innate quality - that is, you are not born with it. Being an authentic leader is not something you can say about yourself; it must be attributed to you.

The faultless formulas of television-the ones that last-are simple.

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.

I've had some physically challenging roles.

Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.