Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved on their door step.

It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.

Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.

Be happy that after living so many lives, I finally found something to die for

My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even loyalty- because without the opposite, the concept had no meaning.

How could you fall in love with a three inch worm?

He thinks things through too much.

I wanted the monster back and that was plainly wrong.

Strange world isn't it?

After all I've seen, if I hadn't learned compassion, I wouldn't be worth much.

How sad. How frightening. To be filled with so much hate that you could not even rejoice in the healing of a child...How did anyone ever come to that point?

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

If your brother can't 'old 'is own against a bunch of orphans, 'e'd best leave off playing 'azard altogether!

Not fault of teaching spider if little spider pay more attention to catching fly than doing lesson.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward though sure of both at last.

Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that.

Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.

I came up with the "We are explorers," with sort of a counter-melody to [Opetaia Foa'i] melody. And so, it happened so organically, that it really, to me, is the most emblematic of our collaboration.

Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.

I only want to make movies I want to see. That may mean my career is somewhat limited, but that is my version of integrity. No matter how it performs or how it's received, I can be okay with it.

I fear the day when the Kuffar are proud of their falsehood, and the Muslims are shy of their faith.