I always found Louise Brooks interesting. She was an icon of the silent - film era, and I knew she'd grown up in Kansas, and that she was smart and rebellious and sharp - tongued.

It's like swimming, underwater, this whole year. I just close my eyes. hold my breath, and keep kicking.

You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them back

Worrying was painful .... but compared to the alternative, a privilege

I am supposed to be where I go.

This life is mine because of good luck. And because I reached out and took it.

This is how it is now. This is my life.

Someone needs to give the Pope thirteen babies. Just for a week or so. See how he likes no birth control then.

I wasn't that familiar with silent films. I didn't know, for example, how hugely popular silent films were in the 1920s, how people would go to the movies several times a week.

One way to remain unfinished is to stop. the other is to go on.

Yes, Louise Brooks was beautiful and intelligent, and she could be very funny, but obviously there was a deep insecurity there, a real destructive rage and immaturity.

Your assets are your employees. Invest more on those performing well. Let the non performers go.

There are miracles and glory in every child. Our glory lies in empowering them to flourish their glory.

I had two thoughts about it. One was I could do that, and the next one was I'll never get to do that.

In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side.

Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.

I'm a big fan of country.

The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom.

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.

Cook more often. Don't study; just cook.

Love's the only goal, that can bring a peace to any soul.