Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star. ' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.
To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.
It is a far greater thing that I do now, than I've ever done before.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
All mothers go through the exact same things.
Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence.
A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.
When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.
Something of God. . . flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
I'm inspired as a writer by any place where I've lived for a significant amount of time that have memories, my past, and stories attached to them, and that's really New York and L. A. Any place where there's ghosts are inspiring.
I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.
If you want to work consistently, you have to be a team player.
The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant.