Medical School is the next step in my career. There is no doubt about that. My mind is still hungry and I want to continue my education.
What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.
No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.
In this age of innovation perhaps no experiment will have an influence more important on the character and happiness of our society than the granting to females the advantages of a systematic and thorough education.
It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.
Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the minds of a whole people. . . . The feeling of equality which they proudly cherish does not proceed from an ignorance of their station, but from the knowledge of their rights; and it is this knowledge which will render it so exceedingly difficult for any tyrant ever to triumph over the liberties of our country.
The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.
What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.
There was something missing inside me I was trying to fill up, but I went about doing it the wrong way. But there sure isn't anything missing inside me now, because you're there.
Glance is the enemy of vision.
People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way, you'll lose your box office; if you don't do it that way, you'll never get financed again. . . 35, 40 years of this, you get beat up.