The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.

Most are unaware of their tremendous worth and boundless potential, despite possessing both.

I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

There's another girl who was going to play Hilary Faye and luckily she wound up not doing it.

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

It is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's.

I'm maybe not so much an exception, maybe because I've lived so long that more is coming, more is there.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

I was fascinated by my own prom pictures.

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.