The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Patience is the art of hoping.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

Prosperity makes few friends.

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

All men are born truthful and die liars.

Memory is imagination in reverse.

If Roosevelt were alive he'd turn in his grave.

Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.

Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.

It was mostly an aura about him (Gene Kelly). For me he was Hollywood. The way I'd imagined it as a child.

To find happiness, it is not quite difficult thing. It is just enough to distinguish the blue of the sky from the pink of peach flowers which are opening out.

The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.

To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

You don't always have to look in the distance for what's going on over there, when you actually see what's right in front of you.

Whatever reforms are carried out in the economy, without deep going changes in men?s mentality ? in their opinion about femininity ? women?s equality may not be possible.