When the big things in our life start changing, we rely more heavily on small certainties to make us feel secure.

Reality is just an interpretation. Some people believe only God really knows what's going on: we mortals just make up our own versions of it.

There are lies in tears. The ones we weep most loudly are usually for ourselves, yet how easily we can pass them off as grief.

When you are young, feelings are your truth. Love is how you feel. The years have taught me that love is not an emotion that you feel about someone, but what you do for them.

Leadership was not an act of bravery but rather forbearance and the strength to move forward with humility in the belief of what is righteous

The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded each sacrifice is made up every debt is paid.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.

I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.

The most important job you'll ever have is in the walls of your own home.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is more of a miracle than any sticks turned to snakes, or the parting of waters!

I said I'll need to get my nose straightened one day so that I can breathe properly and that was translated by the press into me having it done.

I don't care where Obama goes. He can go wherever he wants.

I think television is doing a better job than films in terms of representing people, but television is still not diverse.