No benefit is more constant than simplicity; no happiness more constant than peace.

It is not difficult to know a thing; what is difficult is to know how to use what you know

It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others.

People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness.

In dealing with those who share his bed, the enlightened ruler may enjoy their beauty but should not listen to their special pleas.

Claiming certainty without corroborating evidence is stupid.

He who claims to be sure of something for which there is no evidence is a fool, and he who acts on the basis of what cannot be proved is an imposter.

The way is the beginning of all beings and the measure of right and wrong.

The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.

I was thinking: Girls get scared way too often. Girls get stupidly scared. I was not scared.Telling myself not to be scared kind of worked.

I try to contrast life today is full of contrast... We have to change.

Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city.

Our destinies are our own, if we have the courage to take control of them.

If you see me up there on the stand smiling, I'm lost!

I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors.

The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.

There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.

And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?

Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.