What if I don’t like adventure?Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.

Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.

Her shut-eyed smile transformed itself into something else: the smile of someone brave and knowing, someone whose pain had made her wise.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.

Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.

You know what 'Dolores' means? It's Latin, means sadness. Our Lady of Sorrow. Why are you so sad?

You can be two things if you're a woman, Dolores. Betty Crocker or a floozy. Just remember your place - even if it kills you.

Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That’s what life’s all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

You already know the difference between being a gracious person versus a rude one.

It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.

A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

Socialism can only arrive by bicycle.

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

We are full of bread and gas, getting fat on the outside while inside we grow thin

The Truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction.

People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

I've grown so much as a person through playing Gabrielle, much less living in New Zealand and being with all of these people that I can't imagine my life being any different.

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.