The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other finds an excuse.
The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.
The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.
Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it you're not even aware, only afterwards do you know you were happy.
Some very beautiful things get lost and forgotten. Just as I got lost.
I am an actress. I am not a movie star.
I admire people who are creative.
It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.
We spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with our lives.
I don't know that there has ever been a time when Abraham Lincoln didn't stand head-and-shoulders above all other presidents in the historians' eye. But relatively speaking, there have been peaks and a troughs. One peak was in the 1910s-20s; a major trough was in the 1970s-80s. We are certainly on a peak again, something which began in 1994 with Michael Burlingame's 'The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln,' which showed in fabulous detail how many new and untapped sources were available on Lincoln.
Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.