I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.

You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.

Earl Nightingale

OK you maybe can't buy happiness with Cosmic Ordering, but it's much better crying in a mansion than in a hovel.

Stephen Richards

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

Groucho Marx

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay

Mark Twain

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

Isaac Goldberg

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

Joseph Conrad

I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.

Kristin Scott Thomas

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits

Napoleon Hill

I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure.

Wallace Stevens

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

Maimonides

If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy.

Dean Norris

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Erica Jong