The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop.

Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.

I was thought to be "stuck up." I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.

I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.

I’m not fit to occupy space. Excuse me for living.

The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don't want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon.

Friendship is the strongest bond in the world.

You cannot have growth without change.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.

Freedom is the world of joy.