A verdadeira amizade permanece sem recalques, sem segredos. Na confiança de perceber e de compreender sem julgar.

O amadurecimento de um ser humano é como o de uma planta, de uma flor. Não podemos forçar para que se abra, pois suas pétalas quebrariam. Não podemos esquecer que tudo tem seu tempo.

Não controlamos todas as causas, todas as condições e muito menos todos os efeitos do que fazemos, falamos e pensamos. Mas podemos trabalhar nas nossas intenções, nos nossos votos, nos nossos valores e, agindo através da compaixão, com discernimento, procurar minimizar a dor e o sofrimento no mundo.

“Algumas vezes, temos de ser o barqueiro, alguém que mostre às pessoas que há uma outra margem e que é possível chegar lá.” Abandonar o sofrimento, o papel de vítima e se libertar para viver apreciando a vida.

Quando percebemos nossos sentimentos e nossas emoções, quando conseguimos verbalizar o que sentimos, os libertamos.

Céu e inferno estão em nós mesmos. Quando entramos no mundo do ódio, da raiva, do rancor, da vingança, do ciúme, do tédio, da preguiça, da ganância, da ignorância, penetramos o inferno. Perdemos a condição de apreciar a vida. Sofremos e causamos sofrimento.

Quando penetramos o mundo da compreensão, da sabedoria, da compaixão, da ternura, do amor incondicional, adentramos os portais do céu. Recuperamos a capacidade de apreciar a vida. Alegramo-nos e causamos alegrias a muitos seres.

I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets.

Most people catch them breaching from the surface when they're shooting out of the water. I have them breaching from underwater in a 16-time sequence, a shark leaving the water and then reentering the water.

How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance--the one value that is indispensable in creating community.

Raise your words not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers not thunders.

Focus your heart felt intuition onto things that really matter to you.

You can't embrace your whole life if you're shut down. I found out that I can't just run away and shut down. I'm losing the rest of my life doing that.

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away and leaves behind only silence.

I've been studying voice for quite a while, especially opera, for at least seven or eight years.

And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.

Do what you love doing.

I understand business and understand the ugly face of baseball, which is the business part of baseball.

Time spent in nature is the most cost-effective and powerful way to counteract the burnout and sort of depression that we feel when we sit in front of a computer all day.

Our swords shall play the orators for us.

Brunch is such an odd thing. It was created by fat lazy people who were too lazy to wake up at a reasonable hour and too fat to wait until the next proper time for dining.

In order to achieve optimal economic growth, Congress must adhere to sane spending guidelines while promoting smart policies devoted to growing businesses and creating jobs.

For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.

I'll play a happy character, but most characters are driven by a pain or a fear. They are driven by something deep down, and most people are like that in the sense. And so, that's what interests me.

The goal of Sunday is to leave my home as little as possible.

The Asian brand, which I admire for having become a global success, is Samsung. In comparison, we're just starting, but I believe that we at Uniqlo will be the next Asian brand to do well globally.

It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous.

Loving and being loved is a wonderful feeling.

The history of business has shown that companies usually only regulate themselves if they're forced to by legislation, or out of self-interest - often in the shape of a marketable message that will help sell more products.

When I got married in 1991, I had never been to a wedding, so I didn't know that my wedding was tacky. I didn't know that I was getting married in a quinceanera dress, because there was nobody there to cry over me and tell me I look like a fool.

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.