I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.

Joan Rivers

The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

Lorraine Hansberry

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.

Miranda Otto

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, attributed,

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Don Marquis

The aphorism as a man thinketh in his heart so is he contains the secret of life.

Bruce Lee

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.

Joseph Brotherton, inscription o

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Ambrose Bierce

I have never been contained except I made the prison

Mary Evans

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

Wole Soyinka