Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Its not easy to steer life without errors

To write, ” Marguerite Duras remarked, “is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.

None but the brave deserve the fair.

One must seek the shortest way and the fastest means to get back home-to turn the spark within into a blaze, to be merged in and to identify with that greater fire which ignited the spark.

It's hard to go with a trend. As soon as it's out, everyone picks it up. It's important to stay true to yourself. Have fun with fashion instead of letting it dictate.

I support the protection of life from conception to natural death. But a natural death for a murderer is a death on the gallows.

And i start sleeping and dreaming and i think i'll dream about you, all through the night.

Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.

It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating.

Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.