All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Vindication is the privilege of the victorious

Don’t be selfish in life

The signs of sociopathy are usually there before we are abused

When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.

My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime.

Comedy's been really liberating for me because I've been able to sneak the singing part in through the back door.

Where would I be without my sense of direction.

We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that follows us out to sea like the baying of a hound.

I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.

Every moment is a fresh beginning.