We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

I am a great believer in jobs for teens. They teach important life lessons, build character, and inflict just the right amount of humiliation necessary for future success in the working world.

I liked the idea of a whodunit revolving around a marriage.

Very quickly, I discovered I did not have what it takes to be a good crime reporter: I was too unassertive and a little bit wimpy. It was very clear that was not what I was going to do, but I loved journalism, and I'm the daughter of a film professor, and my mom taught reading.

Books and movies are kind of my two great loves. I don't have too many other actual hobbies. That's pretty much it.

A theme that has always interested me is how women express anger, how women express violence. That is very much part of who women are, and it's so unaddressed. A vast amount of literature deals with cycles of violence about men, antiheroes. Women lack that vocabulary.

Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.

There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.

Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.

There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous, and those who are liars.

Show me an actor who doesn't want to be famous, and I'll show you a liar. Later, you realise that there's more to it than just the acquisition of fame, and money and girls. But that is what drives them and was what drove me, initially.

With 'Transparent'. When Amazon put 'Transparent' up, along with 'Bosch' and a few other things, I watched them, and I thought it was an interesting exercise. I didn't comment on them, but I was like, 'Okay, this is kind of cool.'

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.

One of the top comments I get from people is, 'Oh my God, you're like a regular person!' That's kind of a bizarre thing to live with. I know a lot of famous people, and their lives may not be regular, but they are regular people.

I wasn't going off to New York to be more famous than my father, but in retrospect, that certainly was driving me. He was famous in Philadelphia, but it was also really important to him to be famous. And to a certain extent, I got some of that, even though there were parts of it that horrified me.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.

If you look at my movie career, I do switch it up a lot. I'm always looking for a lot of different parts. It's been a while since I've been in a situation that was romantic.

We are being choked to death by the amount of plastic that we throw away. It's killing our oceans. It's entering into our bodies in the fish we eat.

I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.

Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities.

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

I like to hike and cook. I enjoy furniture and design - not making it, just looking at it. I'm always kind of trying to spread my interests around and try new things.

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.

Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.