No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Big results require big ambitions.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

Change alone is unchanging.

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

I wished to stifle the unhappy passion which burned in my soul

1. “Being able to depend on a person’s integrity lays a solid foundation for a relationship built on trust, both in business and in life.

In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies but you can't buy love.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

I love people; it's mankind I can't stand.

To teach is to delight.

I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog.

Actors are responsible to the people we play. I don't label or judge. I just play them as honestly and expressively and creatively as I can.

In Syria, if [Bashar al-] Assad had just been a statesman and handed over the reigns in time, Syria would not be heading down the nightmare that it is today.