I joined the Communist Party late in the summer of 1934. I got out a year and a half later.

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Wonder is our need today, not information.

Bliss should come from within. We do not want the bliss that arises from looking on the outside. We want bliss that is eternal (sanatan anand).

Instead of just recording reality photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.

As Christ begins to live in us, everything begins to change about us.

First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.

I sensed she [Sarah Harmer] had this look on her face like, 'Jesus, if you can do it, I certainly can.' But I had nothing to teach her, let's put it that way.

You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

Today's smart marketers don't sell products; they sell benefit packages. They don't sell purchase value only; they sell use value.

I've been writing about Vermont independence for nearly ten years... and, more often than not, it was for an audience of one.

Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.