When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

I always said if I had to pick one Grand Slam to win, it would be the U.S. Open.

I know there is no danger that I will ever forget that people construct their own reality, that human beings are not led to the same version of events and of the world by the same physical evidence.

Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.

Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone.

It is when you experience another's suffering as your own that your human values is manifested.

I'm the type that makes attempt after attempt and moves forward like a wild horse.

Satellite images suggest North Korea is building a light-water reactor and working on uranium enrichment. This is troubling.