If you don't need to prove that you are right or that someone else's behavior should be punished, you can better see your way to achieving harmony in any given situation.

In the face of anger, the best response is a burst of tenderness.

Real love doesn't seek to acquire. It gives itself away. Its very nature is that of surrender, service, and generosity.

When we love, we see beauty; we speak in beauty; we walk in beauty. In love, we are beauty itself.

The idea of becoming a mother at sixteen was the scariest thing that she’d ever thought of.

Trying to be more than human one becomes less.

Gratitude will make a man do incredible things.

People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.

Compassion doesn't have to be weak or enabling; it can also be quite bold.

To me, it is very important to have perfume in which it is hard to recognize a particular flower or scent. That gives a touch of mystery.

I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.

What you have to watch out for are the theories that claim to be infallible. Because the only way their believers can win is to stomp out everyone who disagrees with them.

The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.

Casting is always subject to availabilities.