“As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.”

I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.

What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?

I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.

Nobody owes anybody anything; it’s up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.

People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

People think that I’m tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.

The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.

Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.

Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.

I’m an atheist, and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

God’s Law of Cause and Effect: Your rewards in life will always be equal to the amount and quality of service rendered, in the long run.

Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.

The cosmos doesn’t measure sweat and hours for reward. The cosmos deals in the currencies of joy and satisfaction.

I believe that we all get rewarded and punished according to whether we operate in harmony or in conflict with nature’s laws, and that all societies will succeed or fail in the degrees that they operate consistently with these laws.

My philosophy is, it’s always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don’t mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I’d like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.

If you’re focused on the friendship as its own reward, serendipitous stuff just happens. I know that sounds weird, but I can tell you for our 12 years of existence, it’s actually how a lot of stuff happens.

You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.