Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

Sometimes nostalgia is a cage.

I can't pass on an acting career to my kids. But I'm going to try to juggle both.

Use power wisely. If you search your heart, I think you will.

We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.

Girlfriend, if you're waiting for a fairy godmother to show up with a dress and a ride, you're not going to make it to the party.

Being an actress is the sublimation of feminity.

Women had a tendency to see what they wanted to see i men, at least in the beginning

Fools give you reasons and wise men never try.

Enough of anything is plenty, but plenty to some people is never enough.

Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present.