It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles and that help must come from without.

Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

Readjusting is a painful process but most of us need it at one time or another.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see not perhaps the way out but the way in.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes but its fears.

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend perhaps the friend sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

The moment that any life however good stifles you you may be sure it isn't your real life.

The moment one is born, the ‘saw starts cutting’. People consider it as death only when the wood breaks in two pieces [during funeral]. But it was being cut from the very beginning.

Women in London are like the rich silks; they are out of fashion a great while before they wear out.

When you love people, you give them a priority. You have a sense of urgency about their pain.

When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manual—even a one-word manual—then it is a failure, poorly designed.

Success never needs an excuse.

We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge.

God speaks in the silence of the heart.

Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.

This thing, reconciliation, isn't perfect, but we also must have hope. Without hope, there is nothing. So let's hope.

People think I'm a Simpsons character.