Your perception of your dream changes as you walk toward it.

I outwitted those that deliberately suppressed me not by retaliating, but by minding my own business, continuing the self-discovery journey and reinventing myself.

I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them.

Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not.

Judging a person's maturity by the number of years they've lived is misleading. This is because people mature at different rates.

It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time.

A single word spoken at an appropriate time can make someone feel loved, comforted or happier.

By worrying about what will happen next year or the year after, you are using up today's time to do so.

A peaceful mind is a powerful mind...Set your mind at ease and take charge of yourself.

Action gives a decision power and finality.

Take one more step because it might be the last one needed.

Weisheit kann Angst nicht bannen, Angst jedoch kann Weisheit bannen.

I did have a friend, ' I said.'And your friend trespassed upon you, ' the Wally replied.

If you have a very strong will to travel, the road will suddenly appear before you!

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole Its body brevity and wit its soul.

The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.

I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.

We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their arms, sinking, drowning, and we are powerless to assist them.

The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.

Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.

The printed page was like wine to me.