Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

I think women are closer to God than we are. They walk right out there like they know what they're doing.

It's as if I've arrived in a place where it's all spirit and no body -- an overwhelming sense of calm . . . I actually began to feel blessed.

Journalists have no choice but to fight back because if they don't, they will become irrelevant.

The surest way to get what you need is to communicate.

I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.

I love being healthy. I get a lot of sleep. I'm a girl who eats. And I feel beautiful no matter how I look. I have my family to thank for that.

Never allow sick attitudes to poison your thinking, nor let ill will make you ill. Avoid making your mind sore by that painful rehurting called resentment.

The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object.

Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow.