Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them and they bless you the giver.
The opposite of love is not hate it's indifference.
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment or an enlarged egotism.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart or its flame burns low.
Those whom we can love we can hate to others we are indifferent.
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters therefore is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference not only in your own life but in other people's lives.
Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life or you can focus on what's right.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.
While there continues to be differences the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.
We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) ever got out the difference between a legal authorized necessary and safe program and the mindless actions of some MPs (military police) would be buried by the impact of the images.
I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone.
What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong what's legal and illegal ethical and unethical moral and immoral.
The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda.
Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie you know it's something different.
In my role as Wikileaks editor I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that and keep our sources safe we have had to spread assets encrypt everything and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions.
I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.
I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that like learning a little bit of Tibetan here learning a Southern accent there.
I played saxophone so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.