In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery.

The strong look for more strength, the weak for excuses.

I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance.

Kindness is stronger than iron bars.

The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.

Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.

Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.

Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides.

So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.

The most wicked criminals have God on their lips at all times, for God is the only one who can stomach them.

Recreate your life, always, always. Remove the stones, plant rose bushes and make sweets. Begin again.

No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.

To fight a bigger guy you need to train with bigger guys and it takes a lot more on your body. And it's not your weight class.

The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

One of the annoying things when you're in a movie is that gets talked about is everyone projects meaning onto everyone's intentions.

Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

With Southern actors you always think you're from the same place. Even if one is from Texas, one is from Georgia, you're like, "oh, you're just down the street, man."

Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.