It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

There is a festival where we wear the faces of demons to ward evil spirits from our dead in the vale. Sometimes wefail.

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.

I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.

There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"

I try to cast really good actors and give them a chance to do their very best work, give them as much time and space as they need.

The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory

No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.

In a lot of ways I think food is starting to take the place in culture that rock and roll took 30 years ago.

The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.

Compassion is the ability to see how it all is.