If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

Manage yourself first and others will take your orders.

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple the obscure quite clear.

The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.

I always really liked magicians. I'm not even sure why - except that they know things other people don't, and they live in untidy rooms full of strange objects.

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly.

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.

I don't do what I do willingly, but I have to do it.

You may not be pushing me away but you're not fighting to keep me either.

I feel so lucky that I live in a society that lets women be. I think that's the one of the biggest fights to keep having, is to fight for women to have the right to live their life the way they want to live it.

The only thing about my life that's really changed is the fact that a lot of people know me now. I'm still the same person.

I want people to get a better sense of who I am, whether they've seen every video or zero videos.

Was I going to start companies outside of Shutterstock or inside? Going public kind of meant I was going to start them inside, and I kind of thought this through and decided that if I was going to do that, I was going to continue to operate Shutterstock like it was an incubator of startups.

I have such respect for... the Kennedy Center Honors. To be an artist in America and to be honored for it is extraordinary. In Europe, they really honor their artists. And you are on a very high level. And here it's not as revered as it is in Europe or Russia or anywhere in the world.

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch to clean energy, I think we have the capacity to build this world not dependent on fossil-fuel. I think it will happen, and it won't destroy economy.

Euthanasia is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

I'm a long way from Ike Turner.

There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity.

Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

Already at the time of Israel's birth, Ben-Gurion extended his hand in peace to the Arab nations. His hand was rejected, but it remains extended.

My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.