For the fundamentalist who wants to believe every word of the Bible, however, life is a house of cards, with each card a tenet of faith. If you remove one card, the entire house collapses.

If you are not satisfied with the things you have got then stop crying and start working and go get those things that will satisfy you.

Pride is an expensive vice, for it is wedded to Greed whose hunger is never sated

I'm honest about the journey I've been on, so I definitely don't take dating lightly anymore.

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

I don't even know where mine [Oscar award] is. My mother has hidden it because everybody who comes in wants to take a photograph of it. So what she's done is she put it inside a suitcase somewhere.

The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them. They don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Time is the school in which we learn.

If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

All pity is self-pity.