I really don't have a guilty pleasure.
If you see life as an opportunity, or if you see helping others as an opportunity, then all of a sudden you become joyous. You want to go forward.
We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.
This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.
Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.
Our only reliable source of strength is the goodness of our hearts. Our only foundation for coming to terms with the suffering of the times is our innate need to be decent human beings.
Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.
I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.
I can imagine no more important contribution to our country's future than a long-term commitment to improving urban K-12 public schools.
I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.
I'm gonna make love to you like fifteen men.