By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.

Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.

I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

I’m a comedian who got into movies, so I don’t really think of myself as an actor.

I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself.

A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest blessing.

Why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'.

But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

Our business is not to solve problems beyond our mortal powers, but to see to it that our thoughts are not unworthy of the great theme.