"The world exists for the sake of kindness."

“I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.”

“The most disappointing thing this week is that Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan, because he was the intellectual leader of the Republican Party. Because Paul Ryan decided to join Mitt Romney's ticket, he is completely reversed himself on some of the issues he has been very strong on, like the $716 billion in savings that are in two of his budgets.”

Source : "State of the Union with Candy Crowley". www.cnn.com. August 19, 2012.

“Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you.”

“The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.”

“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”

Source : An Essay on Criticism l. 525 (1711). The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs notes, "Although known in Latin (humanum est errare, it is human to err) and in earlier English versions, this saying is generally quoted in Pope's words." The ODP cites "To offend is humaine, to repent diuine" (Henry Wotton, 1578) and "To erre is humane, to repent is divine" (James Howell, 1659).

“I cut off your hand. I have been living with your grief and your rage and your pain ever since. I don't think-I don't think I had felt anything for a long time before that, but those emotions at least were familiar to me. Love I am not familiar with. I didn't recognize that feeling until I thought I had lost you in Ephrata. And when I thought I was losing you a second time, I realized I would give up anything to keep you-my lip service to other gods, but my pride, too, and my rage at all gods, everything for you.”

“One of my goals is to create more art to put out there in the world.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

“I like to make books. To me, it's just as great to have some book of mine be in a flea market as it is to have a picture in a museum.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com