There's no doubt about it. . . I was born a feminist.
Silence gives consent.
A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief - as well as injustice - to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.
But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs
In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.
We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.
It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
I hate the word 'production'. It's a ceremony, a ritual - you should go out of the theatre more human than when you went in.
The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.
I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.
The fruits of life fall into the hands of those who climb the tree and pick them.
To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.
The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
I go into every game thinking I'm going to be the hero. I have to, or I wouldn't enjoy it.
The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.