Just don't waste time trying to change what you can't.

I outwitted those that deliberately suppressed me not by retaliating, but by minding my own business, continuing the self-discovery journey and reinventing myself.

I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them.

Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not.

Judging a person's maturity by the number of years they've lived is misleading. This is because people mature at different rates.

It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time.

A single word spoken at an appropriate time can make someone feel loved, comforted or happier.

By worrying about what will happen next year or the year after, you are using up today's time to do so.

A peaceful mind is a powerful mind...Set your mind at ease and take charge of yourself.

Action gives a decision power and finality.

Take one more step because it might be the last one needed.

Maybe it shouldn’t have come as such a surprise, but like a tooth extraction, there was a moment of intense pain and then a numbing sense of loss. I was officially unmarried.

It's easy to love humanity when you're this far away from it.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

There's nothing that can move a person's heart better than sincerity.

Mathematics is one of the deepest and most powerful expressions of pure human reason, and, at the same time, the most fundamental resource for description and analysis of the experiential world.

A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.

Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee. Thus, mush.

I can do anything - but that doesn't mean I should do that. I need to enjoy what I do. I enjoy making movies.

Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.

Real integrity means an answer. It doesn't just mean - it doesn't mean riding the anger. And this is very difficult to do.