Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

In a heartbeat, he understands why religions are born on the sands – there is nothing here for a man but his own mind.

Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.

I see religion as a storehouse of lots of really good ideas that a secular world should look at, raid, and learn from.

I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

The Conscious will is represented by the Sacred Woman, Maria, Isis, who crushes the descending serpent's head.

I started writing serious books so late because I knew Id be accused of riding on my fathers coattails.

I have never sought out the extraordinary or the scoop. I looked at what complemented my life. The beauty of the ordinary was always the source of my greatest emotions.