I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family’s footsteps and going into professional wrestling.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

I never played with anything like toys.

I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

When I was little… I didn’t relate to princesses. I saw Maleficent, and I just thought she was so – she was so elegant.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

Nothing recedes like progress.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

I started writing as a child. But I didn’t think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something – no, maybe junior – and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.