You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

Everything seems an echo of something else.

I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.

Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.

The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.

Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.

The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.

You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.

if man's life value for women and if she need man, believe me she can not Broke his swear never in any situation, in any condition.

I am called to minister to people and inspire them to do more not to advertise them and have them swell up with pride.

I raise the energiesof the people around me:my presence radiatesunconditional loveand inner peace.

…a woman's always safe and comfortable when a fellow's down on his luck.

Success is getting what you want happiness is wanting what you get.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

Racism is a worldwide problem.

A can-do attitude, a positive personality, and a strong work ethic are still the primary ingredients for success at Nordstrom.