If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

When one door shuts... sometimes it's best to leave it shut, and move on...

I suppose I should be happy to be misread

I like to dress, I love to have make-up on, I like to do my hair.

My major intention for coming to Hollywood - besides the fact that I was just enamored with acting from a very young age - was that I was tired of seeing wimpy Asian actors.

Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings...that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

I'm happy in English studios. I just feel like there's no pressure anywhere.

The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.

You just go in and try to do the best job you can everyday.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.