It amazed me how some people could touch an instrument and create something so beautiful, and when others tried, like me, it just sounded like mangled noise.

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.

Andrius, I'm...scared." He stopped and turned to me. "No. Don't be scared. Don't give them anything Lina, not even your fear.

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot. We were about to become cigarettes.

Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.

Decisions, they shape our destiny.

A wrongdoing doesn't give us the right to do wrong.

Some things just won’t go away, no matter how hard you scrub.

What do you do with all this bank, Josie? Be a lot easier if you just lifted your skirt.” “The only reason I’d lift my skirt is to pull out my pistol and plug you in the head.

There's a reason why golfers walk forward to their next shot. It's to move on.

Very gently. Like there are eggshells on your pedals, and you don’t want to break them. That’s how you drive in the rain.

It's astonishing how many people who direct action don't know how to tell a story.

Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.

It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.

People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.

During those years the past life recollections began. Psychic powers developed, my meditation increased and I found myself changing, over and over again, becoming someone new almost every day.

We’re looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of animals as a legitimate area of concern in law.

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.