Oh, if I had only known, if I had only been ready, our lives can really be the great adventure we so passionately want them to be.

Adventure, without it, why live?

If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!

As unmarried business women we must constantly use our opportunities in business in such a way that we are prepared for the marriage which may be ours tomorrow.

It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.

No life, if it is properly realized, is without cosmic importance.

One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.

Persons who insist to themselves that under one set of conditions only can they lead interesting and satisfying lives lay themselves open to bitter disappointments and frustrations.

It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done.

I used to look at horror movies as being really real and it would totally freak me out and give me nightmares. Now I watch and think, 'whoa how'd they do that?'

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

I cannot allow a third party to decide on my country's future.

Maybe some people are better off in obscurity than trying to keep on expanding.

Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt. Therefore earth's inhabitants are burned up, and very few are left.

You people are right - I am for equal rights for women. I am for that female jobs such as feeding husband and children be considered as valuable as male jobs.

Both my parents work in film. They're crew. I love movies, and I just wanted to be involved. I got really lucky. I auditioned for a while and then started making films.

To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.