If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

Luckily, however, life doesn't always follow tradition, but craves out a path of its own.

In the past five weeks I've trained hard, trying to get my ankle back to where I want it to be

Love is better than Fame.

Don't mess with the dead, boy, they have eerie powers.

Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

The critics who love are the severe ones . . . we know our relationship must be based on honesty.

I see that one part of the education of women is health education. We know that women who are educated have much healthier families.

There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.

I don't believe there is such thing as a just or unjust war; there are avoidable and unavoidable wars. Sometimes you have no choice but to go to war.

As long as we're fit, we just have so much to give on the court.