Youth is gone -- gone -- and will never come back: can't help it.

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.

I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

Conventionality is not morality.

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

The difference being that people fear us. When people fear you, you have power.

Modern society - everyone thinks getting cancer is a normal aspect of life.

I am a great scientist.

We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

It's a wicked thing to make a dearth ones garner.

I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.

Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory.

Without justice, there can be no peace.

Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.