Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

I'm always interested in people who are not orientated in art circles to become part of it.

The balance you have between drive and patience may be your master key to success.

Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great

Perhaps I'll get used to this bizarre place called Hollywood, but I doubt it.

The best critics leave the reader curious to pursue something further, but still to let the reader have his or her own honest, unique opinion.

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

The Tea Party ended up being a shill for corporate America.

I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.

The women in my family - my grandmother and my mother - have been both sources of comfort and terror. Protection was not always available.