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.

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.

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

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.

The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.

I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.

My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try to make it a better place.

Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn't be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.

Im not nearly as afraid of Friday the 13th as I am of the people who are afraid of Friday the 13th.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.

A grateful heart is not one that is very selective and choosy about what to be grateful for.

It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game.

If Edwards gained 60 pounds and lost all his hair, he'd look like Dick Cheney!

Before I started LimoLand, I mainly bought my clothes in Harlem, where I found clothing my size in fun colors. I still like to go there and see the vibrancy and colors of the neighborhood. I am also very influenced by the colors of my contemporary African and Japanese art collections.

Coming up with comedy is hard, man. Those bits aren't easy to think of!

Growing up, I didn't get the talk of 'Make sure boys take you on a date and treat you right.' So I was the girl who wasn't dating and would just text. I dated these guys who didn't have jobs, and I would always be paying. At one point, I remember looking in the mirror and thinking, 'You're too pretty and cool to be treated like this.'

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

The commitment to working at poetry is important because a poet is a maker, and a poem is a made thing. We have to honor our feelings by working to transform them into something meaningful and lasting.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen Voices whisper in the trees Tonight is Halloween

I used to go in at 5:30 or 6:00 so I could run.

My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

It's easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.

As a result of the strategic patience policy, we now have North Korea testing four times an atomic weapon; they've violated numerous United Nations sanctions, U.S. sanctions by launching ballistic missile tests.

'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.