Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.

Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us then return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health we should not have possessed them to our destruction.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.

As a bookish child in Calcutta I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger else it must be pressed small like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are by a fixed recipe.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others we could have a paradise in a few years.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers all making believe as hard as they can.

By and large mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.