Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

That’s what the prom is—St. Patrick’s Day for the young.

You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.

I chose to tell the story visually, so that anyone of any age, from any country, could understand it.

There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.

When you fight someone, you share the experience with that one person, and you’re never going to have that experience with someone else-even in another fight.

People don't think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value.

If I were in a room full of people, I'd rather be the person who is more interesting than the one who is wallpaper.

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

Acting is therapeutic.