Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

Im hoping that for film actors there is this kind of emotional trigger on any subject. It need not be only slums. It can be anything. But even if it is tentative, sooner or later, it will - by its sheer force - engulf you in a way where you make a commitment and you get involved in it, beyond just making it an image-building exercise.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

In time of crisis people want to know that you care, more than they care what you know

I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.

In all fairness to Secretary [Hillary] Clinton I want you to be very happy. It's very important to me.

What would you do if I died? If you died I would want to die too. So you could be with me? Yes. So I could be with you. Okay.

None of us can know what it's like for someone else. It's what makes us individuals. We each have our own pain, our own mistakes. But we can reach out toward each other, help each other. That's what makes us human.

Part of living is acknowledging people's pain and grief, but not letting it take over your heart. Though it's always nighttime in the depths, the waves still reflect the day.

We want to let people know that we can build solidarity with suffering folks so that they are not excluded, they are integrated.

Examine your heart often to see if it is such toward your neighbor as you would like his to be toward you were you in his place. This is the touchstone of true reason.

The blind can see love, the deaf can hear love, the mute can express love, and the disabled can carry love.