Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Never promise more than you can perform.

I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.

I give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain.

The human body is supposed to be 70 percent water. I consider myself 70 percent film

Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

I never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or bowl; but I heard the curtain going up.

Often with film, I find that you're just really getting to know a person. They're just starting to sink in, and then you wrap the film.

Goodness in other people and what they contribute inspire me. I love it when someone is gifted and shares it in some way so that it has a trickle-down effect.