Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Saw a little girl touch a big bug and shout, "I conquered my fear! YES!" and calmly walk away. I was inspired.

The fact is I don't drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car's reactions, becoming part of it.

I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.

The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal.

When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing.

Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.

Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.

We don't need to reject or disparage technology. We need to put it in its place.

Most organisations have a serial bully. It never ceases to amaze me how one person's divisive dysfunctional behaviour can permeate the entire organisation like a cancer.

And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body--her life.