Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.

Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.

Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor.

Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.

When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented.

A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.

Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.

Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.

If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.

It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.

Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.

Endurance of life problems, spirit of survival.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

I'm a very private person. I don't go out much. I'm home with kids. I go to work. I don't really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.

We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.

When I was first on 'Dancing With The Stars,' people were really shocked and surprised.

We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.

If possible, avoid being a bubble; for a bubble, even the gentlest touch is fatal.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

Don’t ever fight with Lisbeth Salander. Her attitude towards the rest of the world is that if someone threatens her with a gun, she’ll get a bigger gun.

To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.