The truth is a lot easier to see when you stop assuming you already have it.

So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.

Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.

We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible.

Never be a victim of life; be its conqueror.

For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.

Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt.

Few suffer more than those who refuse to forgive themselves.

The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful.

A man of logic is a man of sin.

So many boys, so little time.

The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn't set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the pepper.

Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.

The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy state of luminosity.

It was fun, but it's over now. This is how things go.

We all know the power of film; we all know there's almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and talk like you, like we do.

You might not believe it...but you make the world a better place when you smile.

It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.

I guess we're oil and water. (Phoebe) I'd say we're more like gasoline and a blowtorch. (Dan)

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.