Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

The stories that I want to tell especially as a director don't necessarily have a perfect ending because the older you get the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time then I know it can't be much good.

To understand me you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

May joy and good fellowship reign and in this manner may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages increasing friendly understanding among nations for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic more courageous and more pure.

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns their communities will be consumed.