Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.

Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.

Cover the earth, before it covers you.

Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.

Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker.

If God could make angels, why did he bother with men?

Fate is what Heaven imparts.

Life is all about practicing for heaven." p 101.

As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.

I guess I'm the perfect young lead actress. I'm not Chloe Sevigny - I'm not really a character actress. Some actors have "character" faces.

Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.

Where are you looking at blessing as bondage, something you GET to do as something you've GOT to do?

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

We had a sense of importance that would have led us to risk our lives for our rhetoric.

If you want to rear financial blessings, you have to sow financially.

The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.