The greatest rewards come only from the greatest commitment.

As long as you believe what you’re doing is meaningful, you can cut through fear and exhaustion and take the next step.

Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain.

Once I have a vision of something I want to accomplish, I tend to slog doggedly toward my goal until I achieve it; this is a skill from my youth.

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments then the wind blows your footprints away.

It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home.

. . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an individual can be gained unless the significance and effects of that great fact can be grasped.

I want to be on that thing that people watch while they're eating a quick dinner before they go out, or to cheer them up. I want to make people laugh every day, if I can.

We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.

Mistakes quickly pile up and coalesce into a reputation, and a reputation is hard to shake.

The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he does not assume that they are ready-made for today.

Simplicity and order are, if not the principal, then certainly the most important guidelines for human beings in general.

When you have found inner peace, you are in constant contact with the source of universal energy and cannot be tired. . . You have endless energy.

Only you yourself can be your liberator!

...for Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is faith in a person.