Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

If one candidate is appealing to your fears, and the other one's appealing to your hopes, you’d better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope!

We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.

from Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power...

Being President is like being the groundskeeper in a cemetery: there are a lot of people under you, but none of them are listening.

He's firmly, irrevocably, unambiguously convinced that you're somebody worth dying for.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable.

They [442nd Regimental Combat Team] did more than defend America. They helped define America at its best...Rarely has a nation been so well served by a people it has so ill-treated.

A myth, in its original Greek meaning- muthos- is simply that: a story, one which seeks to render life transparent to an intelligible source.

Yes, I will put it out there - I will work for anyone for free if they're prepared to make their clothing Fair Trade and organic. It's really hard to get people interested in it.

Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners.

Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.

For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves.

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.

When filming, I like to travel with an instrument.

I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.

The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.

If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.