The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend

God calls ignorance the rejection of knowledge, which simply means it is actually a choice to be ignorant.

We only feel joy when we love our precious life.

I realized that the most empowering important thing was actually simply taking care of myself.

We need to support our police officers and make sure that community policing becomes something that becomes the standard across the country.

When I'm saying hysteria, I'm referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just called it hysteria.

Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

I must confess that I am usually drawn to sadness, and loneliness has never been a stranger to me. But love tried to welcome me, but my soul drew back, guilty of lust and sin.

I got saved by poetry. And I got saved by the beauty of the world.

But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.