A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness begins on ours.

The deepest wretchedness often results from a perpetual continuation of petty trials.

An ordinary intellect will, by industry and perseverance, often accomplish more than a much superior one, deficient in energy and the power of endurance.

It is not because things are difficult that we dare not undertake them. Be then bold in spirit. Indulge no doubts, for doubts are traitors.

If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.

Education is very important to me, as is helping children.

It is likely that unlikely things should happen

The greatest lesson that I learned in all of this is that you have to start. Start now, start here, and start small. Keep it Simple.

Never categorize yourself: Society does that to you, ..don't do it to yourself.

No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.

The bottom of the soul may be in repose, even while we are in many outward troubles; just as the bottom of the sea is calm, while the surface is strongly agitated.

I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.

In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.

If you dig a pit for others to fall into, you will fall into it yourself.