I love to snowboard with no cameras: 100 percent.
Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.
the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.
Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room hill of people, I would say to myself, "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation in the world-why should you be frightened?
Everyone has a warped vision of Hollywood and what success in Hollywood is like.
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.
You select the colors of your thoughts; drab or bright, weak or strong, good or bad. You select the colors of your emotions; discordant or harmonious, harsh or quiet, weak or strong. You select the colors of your acts; cold or warm, fearful or daring, small or big.