Remembrance is the secret of reconciliation.
The turmoil that my dad went through, and then by extension, the kids went though, was profound and disastrous for the marriage, for the family.
Love between two adults is always conditional. You can fall out of love because you are able to fall in love.
I look like everyone.
If you have a screaming angry director, everyone else will be panicked as well.
Something's happened in our society which I don't think is beneficial, and that's that you see the public being fed box-office news. Newscasts now, every local station - I've been traveling around the country a lot, and you see the local news, and they give box-office reports.
There's boldness in being assertive; there's strength and confidence.
My brain kind of rolls pretty fast when I'm conscious. It's constantly looking for stuff to do. Like if I'm in my house and I'm hanging out, I tend to be listening to music whilst watching a film whilst sending e-mails.
I'm a terrible cook. I am not allowed to go in the kitchen anymore after I almost burned down the apartment in New York.
I'd say look at the teacher's students. Do you want to be like them? If you see a good and harmonious sangha, and if they're practicing well and are good people with good hearts, then you have a cause for trust.
There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one -- an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the readingwriting world we live in. Accessible as it is, this particular kind of peace warrants vigilance.