I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.
Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.
The longer it takes you to become successful, the harder it will be for somebody else to take it away from you.
If you never fall in love with your character, you'll never be able to do that character justice. No matter who it is, no matter what the character does, you have to find the reason for it. Everyone's got a reason for what they do, even if it's a reason that they're not proud of.
In life you don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do.
Life has ups and it has downs. I don't care who you are.
If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you.
If written in the three-letter words of the four-letter alphabet,a human being is determined by a genetic narrative long enough to fill the equivalent of 500 Bibles. In the meantime human beings have discovered this for themselves. That's right. They have uncovered our profoundest concept -- namely, that life is ultimately reading. They themselves are the Book of Books.
I think on all the debate on immigration, and all of that, the class of person that should be given the benefit of the doubt is the genuine refugee that is just in real desperate strait. Some of them are in the United States illegally because of [human] trafficking. They were caught up in trafficking, and you can argue to what extent it's their fault, to what extent they didn't know what they were getting into.
Everything that happens in America happens in New York.
The glance of Love is crystal clear.