The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

If you go in for argument take care of your temper. Your logic if you have any will take care of itself.

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

There is an illusion that has much to do with... most of our unhappiness.... We expect too much.

We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark, with results undreamed of even by those who thought they knew us best.

Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram.

When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own.

She borrowed in harmony and paid back in war

It is only by choice that our true nature is revealed.

Everyone of us has that moment in our life, when you wanted to say NO but say YES even when you know it’s not going in your favor.

What about an amnesiac, who awakes having lost his memories and must learn of his past from scratch? Has he died? How can we be just memories? How does that leave us with enough?

You've got to grow up sometime.

'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs, ' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'

I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing.

For the Divine to function through you, it is important to make every breath, every pulsation in the body, and your very existence an offering.

Advice to Persons About to Write History - Don't.

I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.