It is only by human experiences that we can interpret the Divine.

Patience is passion tamed.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

Do not neglect the house of God.

Possibility is not a luxury

Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

When a movie succeeds, it takes me to another world where I don't think about it and I'm just immersed.

You tellin' me people don't look at Kanye West like the Glitch.

I never thought I was a great mom. I always worked. I fell in love with my children as they got older.

Take care of God’s creation. But above all, take care of people in need.

I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.

I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.