I'm trained to difficulties; difficulties can't be eliminated from life.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage.

Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.

To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.

I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

Women sometimes go too far, it's true. But it's only when you go too far that others listen.

To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.

There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will turn on the first true friend you make.

We all suffer our share of grief but we are stronger than our grief.

When your dreams are clearer and stronger than your sleep, night becomes a mere extension of day

I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more.

It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period.

How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel.

Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

You have more people that love you than you know.

Hell is not a place, it's a state of mind and body; hell is obsession with a voice, a face, a name.

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.