There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

The people who strive for failure are encouraged by those that failed before them. To do the same

Anybody see 'Cop Land'? I went to go see it, but I got stoned in the parking lot. And then on the way in, I read the marquee, and I got paranoid and went home.

Spend the rest of your life doing what God prepared you to do.

I think that everything's hard now anyways, so you might as well do stuff that you love and believe in.

I fear nothing and I regret less.

It's a lifestyle. If you do something good that is worth making, you should make it forever. It's like being a farmer. Just because he makes a gallon of milk doesn't make him stop.

Onstage, I was never the ingenue.

Like I'm always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can't do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was different.

Confuse was the nurses' word for abuse.

I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.