The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

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You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Time is a great teacher, Who can live without hope?

People say you never retire in this [film] business and I say, well, not until they retire you.

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.

I like understanding what's underneath, what's really motivating people. When I was younger, I wanted to be a psychiatrist, so I think it has to do with that.

I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God, I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.

I'm a much more chill person now that I know who I am and know my own voice, so I don't really get nervous with live TV at all.

I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.