When we pray, we open the door for God to come into our problems and situations and work on them.
The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.
There are things in your life which you are in control of, and those you're not. You need to not care about those things which you're not in control of, and when you come to really understand that, you can go from being really upset about something to that lovely feeling of being a kid where everything is okay.
Each of us is leading a difficult life, and when we meet people we are seeing only a tiny part of the thinnest veneer of their complex, troubled existences. To practise anything other than kindness towards them, to treat them in any way save generously, is to quietly deny their humanity.
We're terrible at realising what goes on in other people's heads because we are trapped inside our own.
Have your cake and eat it. . . there's no other reason to have a cake
I control the conditions so my testers become my testees.
I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom
So I come before you with a budget that is honest in its discussion of our challenges, creative in its possible solutions, compassionate in its commitment to our most vulnerable, and balanced on the bottom line.
I was certainly naïve about the judicial system in America. There's a lot of people who are in prison who are innocent. The system is very flawed.