No one invites you to the top - you have to claw your way up. When you get there, you will sit with the others who were also uninvited - giggling.

Don't marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He will spend his life trying to keep you happy. No rich man can buy that!

If you write it down, you can make it happen.

We do not know the worth of one single drop of blood, one single tear.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping.

Today our achievements are so vast that the whole world has become interested in them.

No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.

Yeah, but a mistake is a mistake even if you get away with it.

In fact, whenever I go and watch a film I don't like to read about them beforehand - I like to go in fresh and get inside the story without knowing what's going to happen.

Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.

What can fingerprints mean when they’re not necessarily yours?

Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience.