O, how much simpler things would be If eyes could paint or brush could see.

I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.

I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.

In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15.

Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us.

Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.

Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships.