Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.

I just felt that it was my responsibility, since so many people had taken the time to help me along, to do the same for others.

Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or work requiring methods and techniques of the Renaissance Masters.

I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.

I'm a blowfish. I'm not a shark, I'm a blowfish.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.