Every experience, however bitter, has its lesson, and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.

Life is always difficult in proportion to its intensity and reality.

Peace among the nations, like happiness for the individual, is not an end, but a by-product that usually comes when you live right.

Every experience however bitter has its lesson and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.

Are we eager to know the ways of God?

When you know something, you know it, and when you don't, you'd better learn. And in the meantime, you should keep quiet, or at least speak only when what you say will advance the learning process.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.

As I got older, I would study privately with some coaches. Then I found Lee Strasberg, which I loved.

While not all men are sexist, all women face the impact of sexism in some way, so the point is there's a massive problem to be solved, and you can be a big part of the solution.

It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.

The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.

I’m one of those people who doesn’t follow trends. I set them.