If you can see only what light reveals and hear only what sound announces, then in truth you do not see nor do you hear.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

I am likely to fail if I have determined the cost as too high or my intelligence as too low. Yet, if I think about it, the real failure rests in believing either of these to be true.

...just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives.

I'm conflicted about the lyric tattoo thing. I feel like that's a lifetime decision, and I always feel like, 'I hope you don't regret this a couple years from now when you get tired of that song.'

I just like short hair on women I think it's cool.

You can really get into it - especially in the movies, where you really have the time to get into your character and play her well.

We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.

You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.

Everywhere I looked life seemed to be full of problems and they were just going to go on and on. It was never going to get any better.

Kindness is the connection that links us all together and strengthens the bonds within our communities, neighborhoods, and families.