No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

Great men of old and of today never considered themselves only human, they also considered themselves gods. And god! See what hat great achievement have they realized!

My feelings for Drew couldn't just disappear. They were ingrained within every fiber of my being, and I needed them just the same as I needed air to breathe.

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .

A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart.

My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.

The moon's a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms.

Dance is definitely what I love doing much more than anything else.

You will never find what you are looking for in love, if you don't love yourself.

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.