Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we ?
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
And poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.
I don't mind telling a dark side.
I am not going to give in to people who try to exploit me because of my celebrity status.
Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it.
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.
It was necessary, and the necessary was always possible.
“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?”
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions.
Kindle in thy heart the flame of love, and burn up utterly thoughts and fine expressions.
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
“They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.”
In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.