"One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever."

“You exert a certain degree of influence, and be it ever so small, it affects some person or persons, and for the results of the influence you exert you are held accountable. You, therefore, whether you acknowledge it or not, have assumed an importance before God and man that cannot be overlooked.”

Source : Lorenzo Snow (1984). “The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, Bookcraft Pubs

“It’s ignorant to think you know everything about a person. There’s many different sides to everybodys personality and there’s just different colours to a personality.”

“I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.”

“The bushes of love are blossomed through the manure of hardship.”

“Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; the sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.”

“I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.”

“What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.”

“Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.”