The way to understand any enemy is to realize that, from his perspective, he is not a villain but a hero.

This is what healing demands. Behavior that is hurtful, shameful, abusive, or demeaning must be brought into the fierce light of truth, and truth can be brutal.

If you are able to talk about your life and the joys and sorrows you have experienced, if you know your story, you are much more likely to be a skillful parent.

Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

[S]ound policy condemns the practice of accumulating debts.

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

It's exciting to try to do something in a totally different way - to bring out something totally different in me as a filmmaker. It's time to try something totally different.

I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies.

I played my best everyday. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.

Be respectful of words. They mean something.

We are all just a work in progress.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.