All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

I believe this not in the sense that it is part of my creed, but in the sense that it is one of my opinions. My religion would not be in ruins if this opinion were shown to be false.

There has to be new words to explain new worlds.

My job had been to get the package from point A to point B and what happened after that did not need to concern me. I was just the mule.

I've never wanted to be the hottest star. I always wanted to do good movies.

A scientist is only a human being, a particle in the whole universe. How can the observations and logic of a particle measure the life and size of a phenomenon that is limitless?

My education is going to take me 10 times further than my athletic ability.

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them.

Documentaries were necessary for my growth as a person. I grew up very sheltered and it was a form of expressing myself.

Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health.

I walked exclusively on the sidewalks. I was a city girl. I've never been countrified.