I never thought I wouldnt succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.

I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

Can you imagine a scenario, given our present circumstances, in which human life will actually survive and be here in a thousand years?

Telling a male lion not to be a lion wasn't exactly the easiest thing in the world.

Goodness was not a trait you acquired

Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

Start loving now, and you start Heaven now.

Every honest miller has a golden thumb.

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

She's thirteen. Time will remedy that.

Sometimes, you get the bear. Sometimes, the bear gets you.