If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

Mercy and cowardice are the same, " she snapped out. "But you want their land, not their lives, no? Dead men can't obey.

The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.

There is no one quite as angry as someone who has just lost a lot of money.

Snoop [Dog] is my favorite artist of all time. He's someone I look up to.

I was very much a mess, as a person. I'd come from a very turbulent teenage life, with parents who had broken up in a very bad way, and a lot of illness at school.

Fair play to all those who dare to dream and don't give up.

Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge - today's mass culture, which aims to produce a lot of consuming morons.

Every other religion is a salvation by self, Christianity is a salvation by Christ.

We could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ.

I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won't ask for their money back.