The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.

Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.

Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.

Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.

I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.

Just to be clear, Ray Rice was not fired for beating his wife. He was fired because a video of him beating his wife was released.

Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting.

You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.

I know how to play my guard spot, ... He can worry about the low post.

In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.

Fasting is a medicine.

Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.

The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.