The meaning of the story is the story.

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

Wherever there is ownership, there is upadhi (externally induced problems).

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

I started from nothing in Lichtenstein. The country is so small, and the only 'celebrity' type people who are from there are skiers.

Believe in yourself, believe in something higher than yourself, be selfless, exercise, have great expectations and execute day by day.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

It's a proven fact that when you raise the status of girls and women in a country, that country does much better economically.

I'm proud of my wrinkles. They give my face character. As an actress, you mess with that at your peril.

Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.