The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.