I was fired at the pinnacle of my career on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false misleading fictitious mendacious - just dead wrong.

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

But the beauty of Einstein's equations for example is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony.

I learned the truth at seventeen That love was meant for beauty queens And high school girls with clear skinned smiles Who married young and then retired.

Strength of character may be learned at work but beauty of character is learned at home.

Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.