How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

To be associated with success is absolutely wonderful.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

Success produces confidence confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.

If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.