For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography. )
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
It's not the words but the music that counts.
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
This present system by which industry is motivated exclusively by the quest for maximal profits - though it may have helped a great deal to develop, to industrialize our country so rapidly and so successfully - now it's clearly passed its usefulness. It is keeping us from achieving the ideal society that we should have. We say industry must produce to improve the quality of life for all our people.
By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.
We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
I think if you work as an actress and are supposed as a character to be in love with some actor, then to some extent you do have to be in love with him.
Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me.