Well, I don't know, Lina. But let's just say I've met a lot of dead people.

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.

You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward.

Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.

...we're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell.

They were happy to help someone, to succeed at something, even if they weren't to benefit.

Mother, why are you breaking your beautiful things?' I asked...'Because I love them so much.

But how can they just decide that we're animals? They don't even know us, " I said."We know us, " said Mother. "They're wrong. And don't ever allow them to convince you otherwise. Do you understand?

A guilty conscience is not worth extra food.

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot.We were about to become cigarettes.

Who have not led the holy lifenor riches won while young, they linger on as aged cranesaround a fished-out pond.

Why don't people get their children stuffed after they pass away. Why not, I mean you do love them right?

Without community, there is no liberation.

I always ask myself: "Did I get one percent better today?"

It was kind of unexpected, to wake up one day and realize that the things that you've worked so hard to accomplish, you've accomplished in so little an amount of time.

I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.

Year by year, the monkey's mask reveals the monkey

From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.

Islam cannot accept or agree to a situation which is half-Islam and half-Jahiliyya [separated from God].