"Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit."

“People from the world's richest countries should be prepared to accept the burden of debt reduction for heavily indebted poor countries, and should urge their leaders to fulfill the pledges made to reduce world poverty, especially in Africa, by the year 2015.”

“Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.”

“When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.”

“And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.”

“Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.”

“It seems incredible that the trustees of typically American fortune-created foundations should have permitted them to be used to finance ideas and practices incompatible with the fundamental concepts of our Constitution. Yet there seems evidence that this may have occurred.”

Source : United States. Congress. House. Special Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations, Norman Dodd (1954). “A report from Norman Dodd, director of research, covering his direction of the staff of the Special Committee of the House of Representatives to Investigate Tax Exempt Foundations for the six months' period, November 1, 1953-April 30, 1954”

“Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.”

“I think it is an anarchistic idea to have information on the front and the back. Normally if you add information to information, you have more information.”