How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.

He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

He who labors diligently need never despair.

There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.

The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Nothing is more useful than silence.

The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.

Poetry cannot be defined, only experienced

As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour

Found out. A nothing player.

The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.

It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where and how a story ended.

When we walk in the sun our shadows are like barges of silence.

The best way to say, "I love you, God," is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, "Thank you, God," is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now.

No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government is for the profiteers.

Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me.