A mind at peace does not engender wars.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Always desire to learn something useful

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

All laughter is subversive, even the laughter of children.

I thought that this must be what purgatory was like. Can't go forward. Can't go back. Awaiting some official judgment.

Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals.

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.

The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story.

Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.

Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.

So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.