Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt.

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.

A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.

Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation.

There is only two kind of #books .First one is by some #famous person and Second one makes a person #famous .

Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.

My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God?

We are Americans, We have the right to participate and debate any administration.

I don't worry about nothing. I have a lot of concerns. My life is full of concerns, but I try not to worry.

Before you put pen to paper, before you ring for your stenographer, decide in your own mind what effect you want to produce on your reader — what feeling you must arouse in him.

A print book is really a kind of tree zombie.

I'm not always happy when Hollywood does remakes of films, but that's usually, when they have a very, very, very good film and they take away anything controversial from it and make flatter.

Far out of sight forever stands the sea, Bounding the land with pale tranquillity.