For me... it was always about the challenge of making this voyage... It was always a calculated risk, but life is a risk.

You don't have to be someone special to achieve something amazing. You've just got to have a dream, believe in it and work hard.

You don't have to be anyone special to achieve something big. You just have to want to do it.

You are only as big as the dreams you dare to live.

You can't change conditions - just the way you deal with them.

I’m an ordinary girl who believed in her dream.

An eye for an eye my friend.

Silence free the mind from its verbal cage.

The world was made for the dead. Think of all the dead there are...There's a million times more dead than living and the dead are dead a million times longer than the living are alive...

Definitions create conditions.

If you have a plan and you don't even SHOW IT, you are just like someone born to be great and don't even KNOW IT.

Brigid: I haven't lived a good life - I've been bad, worse than you could know. Spade: That's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere.

Occasionally, I come to moments of anguish in the text.

I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget.

None are too wise to be mistaken, but few are so wisely just as to acknowledge and correct their mistakes, and especially the mistakes of prejudice.

The real question is how do you stay funny in your 70s and 80s? And that's a real accomplishment, you know, the longevity.