One of the things that authoritarians hate is the sound of laughter.
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.
I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.
What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.
Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.
I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.
The Ego ages. . . the Soul evolves. . . and to the Awareness, nothing happened!
In "solid modernity" difference was tolerated as a temporary irritant only, expected to disappear tomorrow, when "those aliens" will become like us. "Living with strangers" was therefore not something to last and did not call for developing appropriate arts and skills. Now, however, it looks like that diasporic context of our living will not go away - it will be there forever, so learning how to live with strangers day in, day out without abandoning my own strangeness is high on the agenda.