Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.

When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top.

Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.

Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.

Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.

Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.

Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut.

I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!

I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

That living has no value - it's what you do with life that gives it worth.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

Canada is a live country - live but not like the States kicking.

Their eyes met. It had begun. They had begun.

I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.

Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.

Those who would rule with an iron fist always fear the free expression of opinions by those they would suppress.

You don't know for sure why things happen, but you know, it did! It was my time to go on the show and I'm excited to see what my future holds.

My eyesight's gone, my reflexes are shot, and I can't stay awake, but thank God I can still drive.