When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.
The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief’s bugle, but where to blow it.
It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.
I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.
A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.
Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.
I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.
I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
Love and compassion. . . are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being.