«Отец говорил мне, что надо трудиться; он не говорил, что надо любить трудиться»

«Ничто не урегулировано окончательно, пока не урегулировано справедливо»

«Если бы у меня было восемь часов на то, чтобы срубить дерево, я потратил бы шесть часов на то, чтобы наточить топор»

«Будет больше пользы, если вы уступите дорогу собаке, чем если она вас укусит. Даже убив собаку, вы останетесь укушенным»

«Я убедился на собственном опыте, что люди, не имеющие недостатков, имеют очень мало достоинств»

Большинство людей счастливы настолько, насколько они считают себя счастливыми»

« Кто пассивно ждёт — в конце концов получает ожидаемое, но только то, что осталось после тех, кто действовал энергично. »

«Когда я делаю добро, я чувствую себя хорошо. Когда я поступаю плохо, я чувствую себя плохо. Вот моя религия»

«Кем бы ты ни был - будь лучше»

«Раз мы взялись за новое дело, мы должны иначе думать и действовать»

«Я всегда был невысокого мнения о тех, кто сегодня не старается быть умнее, чем вчера»

I really enjoy dressing up. I'm pretty much a girlie girl.

There are so many different kinds of relationships so its sort of difficult to define what is considered normal.

People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.

One thing that I can say is that I think its important that theres some sort of celebration of beautiful women that isnt just exploitive.

I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.

Whenever I come to Delhi, I forget about eating right and watching my weight.

Only those who are truly aware of their sin can truly cherish grace.

Just because I make movies in the scary world doesn't mean I want to visit scary worlds.

The first session of the Congress of the United States under the Constitution was devoted principally to the problems of immediate revenues and administrative and judicial organization.

I have an awesome team. We all talk about what projects are the best for me to work on for my career and which ones to pass on.

If you're beautiful within, a person can fall in love with your spirit.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.

I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.

It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.

I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.

When life gives you rough waves, surf'em.

I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut-or get angry from the gut.

Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Growing up in New York, we lived all around the city depending on our economic circumstance. I also lived in Puerto Rico for a number of years.

When I came to America in 1978, I was a huge sports fan - the problem was, my sport was cricket. Shockingly enough, no one wanted to talk cricket with me!

I think of myself as a fairly attractive girl and always have, thanks to my mom. I was brought into this world thinking I was gorgeous because my mother was extremely devoted to this notion.