Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

If a girl is smiling and is bringing positive energy and she's happy, that's what I notice right away - and her teeth.

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

Perhaps fortunately, no one has ever found out what it would be like to have all his wishes fulfilled.

The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.

All the boys in rehab are totally available because their girlfriends have all given up on them. It's fantastic.

Did you ever want something really bad and then when you finally got it all you could do was stand there and grin at it?

I bought a dress a few years ago for £2,500. It was outrageous and not the kind of money you want to be spending. I had a mad moment that day.

Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.