Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Always desire to learn something useful

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

Kill what you can't savewhat you can't eat throw outwhat you can't throw out buryWhat you can't bury give awaywhat you can't give away you must carry with you, it is always heavier than you thought.

If we make a small commitment towards keeping our talent alive, one day it becomes a beautiful gift, which nourishes us, makes our lives complete.

Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

The only difference between dreams and achievements is hard work.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

The word priority was singular for 500 years—what does priorities mean—'many many first things.'

You can't live a positive life with a negative mind.

Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.

The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.

There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes you make, the cheaper they all are individually.