There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

The secret of success in life is known only by those who have not succeeded.

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?

When dreams come true, you won't realize unless they were dreams of bad fate.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

No matter what it is in life that you want kid, just want it worse than anybody else [and] work harder than anybody else to get there.

I knew what leukemia and lymphoma were, but I had never heard of multiple myeloma.

... every human being is an unprecedented miracle.

I aspire to be able to appreciate and review a director based on their accomplishments and based on who they are and what they bring to the material, regardless of their gender.

Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke.

I haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.

I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up.