"The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon."

“I began to understand the challenges that first-generation college students and students of color have in college.”

“The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001.”

“When you give to others to the degree that you sacrifice yourself, you make the other person a thief.”

“I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.”

“I only get ill when I give up drugs”

“We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this.”

“I'm 37 and I was told recently I was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55. It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad, and then it made feel angry, and then it made me laugh.”

Source : "Maggie Gyllenhaal to Star in Sara Colangelo’s 'The Kindergarten Teacher'" by Laura Berger, blog.womenandhollywood.com. May 31, 2017.

“All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.”

Source : Timothy Radcliffe (2005). “Seven Last Words”, p.85, A&C Black