Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness.

All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.

People never think about words, they only feel them.

Sadness is so ungrateful.

People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.

Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.

It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal.

Ears for wisdom, hands for work, eyes for opportunities, and a mouth for thanks.

We must conquer the fear to avoid losing the battle.

I already knew that I had the ability to free myself from hatred, and I viewed this as my most significant conquest.

Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.

My values are non-negotiable. And if it means not getting a role, it means not getting a role.

I actually see myself in all my characters. In order to imagine what it feels like to be another person I have to use my own experiences and responses to the world.

God created black people and black people created style.

I think there should be national standards on the use of legal force.

Did she just call me a bleeding toothpick? Kill her! Kill her now!

How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?