Tallulah Bankhead

You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing, but what you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.

People say time heals all wounds. Let me tell you, time heals nothing. You can do the wrong thing for 10 years and it doesn’t equal the right thing for one day.

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.

If you want to change the world, start with the next person who comes to you in need.

Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Since when is “public safety” the root password to the Constitution?

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Now I’m a warrior.

From the day I arrived, California seemed like an enchanted land.

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.