You don't have to tell a child not to bully. You know, you talk at kids, they don't hear you, but when you give them a visceral experience, then they have something to remember.

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.

We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

You said you want to became Hokage. I have become the Kazekage. If you are willing to bear the name Kage, you have to do what you must do.

Some problems are imaginary and not real.

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

as imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!

Some people look at the surface, while some see what's deep down. The most important thing is that the film should somehow stay with them until the very end.

Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is playing jazz, one guy is playing rock and roll, another classical. It's a big mess.

The vine that has been made to bear fruit in the spring, withers and dies before autumn.

I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.

When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.

Generosity is, by definition, disinterested.