It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Game’s always been open arms with me.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

I have good days and bad days.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

On a spiritual level, it’s as though with my sighted eye I see what’s before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what’s hidden. It’s illuminated life more than darkened it.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

I don’t have this feeling that 70 is really old.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Never get out of bed before noon.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.