Life is not meant to be a burden. Life is not a problem to be solved. It is a blessing to be celebrated.

Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.

Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.

Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.

We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does not repent.

Grief is a sign that we loved something more than ourselves. . . . Grief makes us worthy to suffer with the rest of the world.

Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.

When souls really touch, it is forever. Then space and time disappear, and all that remains is the consciousness that we are not alone in life.

Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others.

Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that. We overlook too much in the beginning and wonder why we lost control in the end.

Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be at all times.

We have to be honest to ourselves to see honesty in others.

The saddest thing about falling in love is that sooner or later something will go wrong.

God has many names though He is only one Being.

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response.

I think celebrities suck.

Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.

Even if I'm sad, dancing is a way to let stuff out.

I am a very active person. I have a lot of energy, and I love to be doing something physical all the time.

What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art.