Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.

Ignore the world when it forgets to tell you that you are beautiful...A goddess needs no reminding...

Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple as that.

And honestly, if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken.

The art of a magician is to create wonder. If we live with a sense of wonder, our lives become filled with joy.

... not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.

I'm really into football, gadgets, adventurous activities, and cooking new, creative recipes right now - but you'll never catch me being boring.

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

America gave me the great glory of coming into people's homes every week and allowed me to last as long as I have.

Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon