The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.

I believe, every day, you should have at least one exquisite moment.

nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity.

Love does not terrify me. But the going away of it does. I have been made terribly aware of how everything can be wrenched away from you and your life torn apart. If I had known very secure nights all my life, if I had never seen or felt the fear of being tortured or deported or blown up into a million pieces, then I would not fear it.

I never expected to be a star, never counted on it, never even wanted it. Not that I didn't enjoy it all when it happened.

For entertainment, a party bears no one in as much as those who are not there. ­