To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

Darkness and light. Black and white. But which is death, and which is life?

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.

The 'ER' role was not Asian-specific, and my agent knew that I loved the show.

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity.

I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old

Just say yes and you'll figure it out afterwards.