Heaven ne'er helps the man who will not help himself.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Always desire to learn something useful

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

But to a Vietnamese peasant whose home means a lifetime of back-breaking labor, it will take more than presidential promises to convince him that we are on his side.

Just not a big fan of dogmatic rituals or gatherings. Like I put faith in god, I give a truckload of significance to karma, character and compassion.

They tugged plans and ambitions out their as*es and held tight to the first that didn't smell so strongly of shit.

There is nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

I don't need to read the news. I see it on the faces of everyone I meet.

Actors were the first people to accept me.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

She has an electric blender, electric toaster and electric bread maker. She said "There are too many gadgets and no place to sit down!" So I bought her an electric chair.

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

As to describing me as an outsider throughout, and an outsider through and through - I have no reason to disagree.