If too many things have to happen in order to bring about the situation you want, then back out of it and try again later.
Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage.
I don't want to be considered a hero. . . . Imagine [if] young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary.
People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.
I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.
Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.
Real strength is being able to carry on when times are hard.
Trust takes one second to lose and a lifetime to rebuild.
You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination but you can't supress dreams.
Television allows you to actually make a living, feed your children, send them to college and important significant things. To have the ability, the luxury, to make the choices of doing little movies where people cannot pay you.
The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.