Study the past if you want to define the future.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

To See What Is Right And Not Do It Is A Lack Of Courage.

What you do not want done to yourself do not do to others.

Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

When you are ready to accept the risk, only then can you open the doors of opportunity

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

No loss is big enough to lose hope for tommorrow.

My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.

On one project I was hanging out with Brad Pitt, and Ryan Gosling, and Steve Carrel, and Christian Bale, and trying to explain economics to them for a movie I'm an advisor on.

I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.

When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'

I do not think a similar goal, to attain fame, drove me when I was a child and young woman.

Actually, I used to be a busboy in a strip joint in New York and so I hate strip joints. I'm not that kind of person.