In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Where facts are few, experts are many.