Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent.

Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation.

has it ever occurred to you that where there is no anger, there is also no love?

The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy.

What goes up, must come down... Mustn't it?

Let you follow the path of prayer and devotion and if God in you takes pity He will appear as God-the-preceptor and will show you His sports and sportive forms and you will be a witness to them.

Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel.

People tell me how do they want you.. and I JUST DO STUFF... I JUST DO IT... THAT'S A FACT!

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

I think people are really talking about it. Having conversations about how to make change.

Don't be threatened by people smarter than you.

My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.

There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring. In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.

Have consideration for wounded feelings.

Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?