What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness.

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.

We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us.

I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.

Compassion is not pity ... compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion, one might say, works from a strength born of awareness of shared weakness, and not from someone else's weakness. And from the awareness of the mutuality of us all. Thus to put down another as in pity is to put down oneself.