Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.
People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.
You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy even if you're not part of their happiness.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that so really I've got no choice but to be an all-around good person.
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter he can only be a builder.
I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.
A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.
Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.
The great person is ahead of their time the smart make something out of it and the blockhead sets themselves against it.
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able vicariously to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat what's more with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Of course to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery above weakness above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.
I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education and then if you want to pursue acting go to graduate school.
I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.
In the book I define conservatism as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution respect for life less government and personal responsibility.
As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement your financial security for anything.
I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.