To us, they are not so much who they are as who they will become.

Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.

The place of true healing is a fierce place. It's a giant place. it's a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light.

You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.

The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.

Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love.

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

Real change happens on the level of the gesture. It's one person doing one thing differently than he or she did before.

Be fearless enough to let love transform you.

There are so many torturous things in this life. Don't let a man who doesn't love you be one of them.

But shortcuts are dangerous we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is.

Almost all the times advices from your loved ones are for your safety, not for your success.

A good death is a death in solidarity with others. To prepare ourselves for a good death, we must develop or deepen this sense of solidarity.

I do have a responsibility, but I would make the most boring films in the world if I woke up every morning worrying about my social responsibility.

Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

A lot of women do a lot of harm because they don't control their emotions. But in terms of violence, men seem to have a monopoly

[The Republicans] have come up with nothing. They say repeal and replace. That has alliteration.

I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.