I do not believe it is in our nature to love impartially. We deceive ourselves when we think we can love two beings, even our own children, equally. There is always a dominant affection.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

Change your mind, change your future

I try to stick to a certain diet all the time, and then when I feel like a reward, I have it. I try to stick to no dairy, no sugar, no wheat.

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.

I love you, because the love you gave me was the only love I've ever had, the only love I ever will have

Life is a process of continually reordering priorities.

If you want to understand a difficult or trying person, begin by asking the question: 'What is the wound they are trying to heal?'

Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.

As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?