Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality.
Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.
When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.
Bringing any movie together is a minor miracle.
I really would not call myself a fashion icon. I would call myself somebody who gets dressed by professionals. . . I would call me more of a monkey.
I was probably born a scorer, but I was made a winner. Whatever works, whatever wins championships, wins games, that's what I do.