It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.

You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.

No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.

You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them

Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.

We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.

Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

Love is the strongest soul.

You listen like an amateur and fool yourself into believing it is enough when it is not.

A simple truth delivered in kindness may be the impetus that ignites a passionate fire in another’s soul and goes on to become the source of motivation for positive change.

'Heavenly Creatures' was really the idea of Fran Walsh. It was a very famous New Zealand murder case, but not one that people knew much about.

My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel.

I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything.

The world is sagging, snagging, scaling, spalling, pilling, pinging, pitting, warping, checking, fading, chipping, cracking, yellowing, leaking, stalling, shrinking, and in dynamic unbalance.

In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is to enlarge the empire of the human mind.

...will you be so kind as to provide me with a few places where I might look for a murderer?" "The mirror's a great place to start

A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him up for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown.