Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.

I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place.

If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry you through to the end of the journey.

There is no way to find yourself until you discover how utterly to lose yourself.

In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better.

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

No going around it, no short cuts, no laying of hands, no amount of service, no amount of prophecy, without hard work, everything else goes to waste.

I was unprepared for the firsthand experience of mindfulness. The way that awareness … revealed a sense of well-being right there in the heat of my emotions.

One of the things I love, more than anything, is jumping around and playing lots of different parts. I love the variety of playing different characters.

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power

For me, as an actress, being a dancer has helped me. I've done it with my feet bloody.

Now we've got the cables. We've got talk radio. We've got the bloggers. I hate the bloggers.

You're so heavenly minded, you're no earthly good.

I did a study of soldiers returning from Iraq, and their levels of PTSD were much higher if they had had to shoot a woman or child, even if they knew the person was a suicide bomber.

I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.

And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.