I've always wanted to do something where I aged a lot, went from young girl to dowager.
It's the hardest thing in the world to accept a 'little' success and leave it that way.
Only the one who walks his own way can't be overtaken.
Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.
Acting, in general, is something most people think they're incapable of, but they do it from morning to night. The subtlest acting I've ever seen is by ordinary people trying to show they feel something they don't, or trying to hide something. It's something everyone learns at an early age.
Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.
People will like you who never met you, they think you're absolutely wonderful; and then people also will hate you, for reasons that have nothing to do with any real experience with you. People don't want to lose their enemies. We have favorite enemies, people we love to hate and we hate to love. If they do something good, we don't like it. I found myself doing that with Ronald Reagan. He is anathema to me. If he does something that's reasonable, I find my mind trying to find some way to interpret it so that it's not reasonable, so that somewhere it's jingoist extremism.
Air power alone does not guarantee America's security, but I believe it best exploits the nation's greatest asset - our technical skill.
The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks or defends social institutions is a secondary matter.
More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
The most important time in life is the present.