When trouble ends even troubles please.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Always desire to learn something useful

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

Your pain and struggles only serve to remind you that you are alive.

To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.

I wish we didn't have to tell this story.

What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church people do. That is not what God has called us to do.

I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.

Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.

We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises.

If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality.

I'm a micro-celebrity, about as small a celebrity as you can be.

Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.