If there's anything I have learned, it's to sort of be sensitive to what - to how much - to how creative the act of listening is and to how powerful the act of listening is.
Seriously, who has monogrammed pajamas?
Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.
The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.
Egyptians believe in the power of the sunrise. They believe each morning begins not just a new day, but a new world.
It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.
Just because you don't see me doesn't mean I wasn't there
When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.
One night my son was downstairs studying, and he had been up so late all that week, and my husband said, "I feel so sorry for him. " I said, "Look, if he's going to become a surgeon" - he is studying to be a doctor - "he's going to have his hard times. I feel sorry for him too, but if he lives in this world he's going to have more hard times. He's going to stay up some more nights. " I think we can't shield them from the hard times, even though we'd like to. I say to the children that I teach and to my own - I can't test the ground for you and tell you that's a safe step there.
You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.
It's really nice when life comes full circle and you get to work with people four years down the line.