It is a great victory if you learn how to survive in today’s hard times

Action is a high road to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people, and its rewards are tangible.

Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself.

What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.

Some things are good, some middling, more bad.

The fact that Eddie Vedder likes to play 3 hour plus shows a night, I have to be ready for that.

Surely, that's what interns were invented for?

The pain barrier was not a barrier for her; she could go beyond it.

...some people aren't worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out of your kindness.

I believe that in fact it would be economically reasonable and logical to reach a compromise [on oil production], I am sure that everybody understands this.

As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.