Mary Pickford

"Laughter is medicine for the soul."

"True beauty radiates from within."

"In death, we find the value of life."

"Those who persist shall prevail."

"Gratitude transforms our perception."

"Creation requires courage and vision."

"Justice is the pillar of civilization."

"Wait with grace and trust."

"Kindness is rebellion in a cruel world."

"Strength grows through adversity."

"Face fear and emerge victorious."

"Power without compassion is tyranny."

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

"This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."

"I have often admired the mystical way of Zen Buddhism, in which the teacher strikes the student to awaken enlightenment."

"Popularity is the easiest thing in the world to gain and it is the hardest thing to hold."

"The film medium is the greatest art form the world has ever known."

"I trust any man immediately; but I am quick to abandon my trust where it is not reciprocated."

"Motion pictures are the poetry of our age."

"My mother was the making of me. She was so sure that I was destined for success that she laid down her own career."

"I never asked for success. I never looked for it. It came to me, and I have done my best to keep it."

"Every woman should be independent and capable of taking care of herself."

"The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to play."

"I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved."

"One cannot direct the wind, but one can adjust the sails."

"The greatest thing about being alive is the knowledge that we shall die."

"I have always believed that the greatest asset any person can have is a good name."

"God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met."

"Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and despised by our fellows, but for our qualities."

"I think the most important thing a woman can have is her independence."