Mary Pickford

"I am my own woman. I do as I please, and I answer to no one."

"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."

"The greatest value of a picture is that it forces us to ask ourselves questions."

"Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone."

"It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, but a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can."

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

"Every path has some puddles."

"I have often admired the mystical way of Zen, in which the teacher hands down to the disciple an allusion to some mystery, to be sought in self."

"The motion picture is a medium of perpetual middle age."

"Fear is the great paralyzer of life."

"I think I always want to be happy. Is that so wrong?"

"My ambition has always been to be an actress."

"A woman's demand for equality in the church is nothing new."

"I have always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come."

"Life has a way of testing our faith when we least expect it."

"Success is not an accident, it is the result of honest effort."

"When you make a choice, you change the future."

"I prefer to keep my thoughts to myself."

"The most important thing is to be true to yourself."

"Acting is like a form of meditation."

"Never surrender your dreams."

"I have always been a pioneer in my own right."

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"My strength comes from my convictions."

"Time is precious, use it wisely."

"I have always valued my independence above all else."

"Beauty fades, but character lasts forever."

"I believe in the power of imagination."

"Gratitude opens the door to abundance."

"I have learned more from my failures than my successes."