Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

Whatever the other person sees according to his view-point, you have to accept it. How can we make others accept our view-point?

I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.

We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

Your subconscious mind makes all your words and actions fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept and your innermost beliefs about yourself.

Innumerable Buddhas Enlightened... innumerable Christs crucified... always the same Christ, the same Buddha!

In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.

What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors!

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The Game'.