The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.

I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot. One should never return to sacred places.

When our patterns are threatened by new facts, reason is seldom the victor: 'I know what I think, so don't go confusing me with new opinions.

Develop a can-do-spirit and be sure you are not suppressed by the naysayers whose daily actions are meant to discourage you from achieving what you believe.

Why of course it's unlikely!' I said. 'Oh, by far!The awesome-est things in the world often are!

I don't know about "dream role." I do so many dramatic roles or period films or [play] traumatized people or stressed-out people or very intense things, high stakes happening all the time.

Everyday I walked on to the field I was the best center.

Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.

I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.

Never looking anyone in the eye when you're traveling on public transport, in case it's interpreted as a sign that you're trying to get off with them.

He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance.