"It is a humble truth that patience is not passive waiting; it is active endurance with a calm countenance — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a profound truth that time is the most impartial judge; it reveals all pretenses and rewards all patience — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war."

"It is a quiet truth that patience is not passive waiting; it is active endurance with a calm countenance."

"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."

"There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk - except they all apply to you, and all at once."

"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others."

"When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it."