All autobiography is self-indulgent.

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost.

Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.

I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.

Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.

When you treat your failures as lessons, you can never fail.

There shall come a day when Birds shall be free... :) and humans will see...

When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.

There is my favorite quote that I ever heard from her [Lori Petty],... 'Things can happen to you, but they don't have to happen to your soul.'

Above all, the clinician must not shake what little faith the patient has in himself.

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

Some things are worth the fat and calories, although I have to watch it like a hawk.

Innocence is not accustomed to blush.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Whatever's most important to you is your god. If it's not the Rock Christ Jesus, then it's sand!