All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.

None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.

Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.

An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life, the better.

Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.

Always follow your path, or the road less travelled.

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.

Get back to work all of you! I'm not running a happy factory here.

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheel-work of the universe.

I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.