Make friends with people who want the best for you.

Stand up straight with your shoulders back.

Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping.

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.

Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.

Pursue what is meaningful not what is expedient.

Tell the truth - or at least, don't lie.

Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't.

My family never had a business background. We are artistes.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.

I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer.

I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.

We will work toward maintaining the status quo for peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait in order to bring the greatest benefits and well-being to the Taiwanese people.

Its uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.

Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm bone or a leg bone. Here was 40 percent of a single skeleton.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds “ they mature slowly.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Chronically homeless means constantly homeless it means repeatedly homeless.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

It was my own internalised homophobia. I didn't want to be gay.

I'm just waiting for the moment where it's accepted that women are just as sexual as men without women having to be overtly sexy just to prove how 'liberated' they are.

It makes me happy that people recognise me and want to click pictures with me. But sometimes, I want to be a common person. I want to go to a coffee shop and just chill. I miss driving my car with the windows rolled down.

Thank God, I have sort of a pan-European accent rather than Russian, which doesn't sound very pleasantly to Americans. For them, we speak with a rather rude pitch, and that might be our actors' problem there. Now I've begun working with language coaches in Los Angeles to get rid of the accent completely.

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

Real elegance is everywhere – especially in the things that don’t show.

The first principle of aid is respect.

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

Nothings dangerous if you know what youre doing.

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

Behind every morsel of bread, fruits, or meat is a large amount of transformed fossil fuels.

'Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get solved in an hour. Nobody ever gets hurt, and nobody needs to care. You give up an hour of your time, and you don't really have to get involved. It's all plastic.

The laws of literature, like the laws of gossip, usually demand exaggeration, decontextualization, a heightened or minimalized reality, and a lot more shape and order and impact than everyday life.