I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

I have continued to face quite a lot of situations that might frighten other people, but they haven't frightened me because I've known why I was doing what I was doing. And I think if you know why you must do something, that's a very big strength.

This is definitely the most difficult situation that I have ever seen. … I feel that what I’m witnessing here is a very systematic destruction of people’s ability to survive and that is incredibly horrifying.

To begin is more interesting than to finish.

I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

Melanctha Herbert was always seeking rest and quiet, and always, she could only find new ways to be in trouble.

Right now, there's an enormous fear all round and people are facing the pressure that comes from not knowing what you can do about the situation you're living in.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.