"My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right."

"The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals."

"The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect."

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

"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."

"Every true genius is bound to be naive."

"It is a steadfast truth that when you master your attention, you master your entire perception of reality."