It is one thing to lose people you love. It is another to lose yourself. That is a greater loss.

There is a depth to life which only comes from our connection to other people. However, we have to find it without becoming a prisoner.

Life is not a competition. No one has to lose for someone else to win. A true blessing blesses everyone.

The question is: do you want suffering or do you want peace? It's that simple.

Your body would not get sick if you held no thought of resentment. It is neither good nor bad of itself. If we hold anything against anyone, we will suffer ourselves.

We have already said more goodbyes than are necessary. Those were goodbyes that brought about the end of partings. We taught each other that no parting is possible.

Saying of the ProphetUnderstandingSpeak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.

Prayer wasn't a familiar practice in my life. --Titus Ray, Chapter 2

If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.

The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Carrie Fay always says that nothing is really horrible unless it eats away your face.

I did Shakespeare in college and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men.'

Remember when you were eleven years old and you thought how great it would be to get your period? And then you got it? That's what planning a wedding is like.

There are many people who think I'm actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of 'Goodfella'.

Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.