Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.

If you want to make an impact, you need to invest your time every bit as much as your money. And you need to stay involved for the long run. If you can't look at a five-year horizon, you shouldn't get involved.

We need to hear stories from older women. There's a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they're silenced.