The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

Your happiness is a beacon of light in my life. Although you may not realize so now, your bright disposition will smooth many paths ahead for you. Whatever happens—don’t ever let that light go out.

I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me, but I didn't have the confidence to go along with the physical skill.

Anger, pride and competence are our real enemies.

I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed! Gen.

Any political historian can give innumerable examples of one percenters who have gone on to success, maybe even Bill Clinton himself?

Just opening quietly for moments everyday can create a path by which life can reach us, the way rain carves a little stream in the earth by which the smallest flowers are watered.

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.

I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker

If you ever thought you were ugly, Los Angeles is the place to come and find out you were right.

We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight.