Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.

Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.

We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.

The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.

Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket.

Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.

Theatrical work means too much work or none.

Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.

He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.

Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.

Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment.

Failure is a signpost on the trail to success

The kids (in the Jesus Movement) weren't singing for themselves. It seemed like they were singing TO Someone.

The butterflies in my stomach turn into vampire bats as we pull up to the school.

When you write, you can write yourself into the world of your dreams or the world of your nightmares. The choice is yours!

For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive

It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.

I was one of the first print models to go on the runway because I wanted to do runway. When I started doing the shows, I was the only print girl there.

I have an idea for sweatshops: air conditioning! That's simple. 14 year old boys working twelve hour days? "Yeah, but they're comfortable!"

Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.

Heaven for me is hidden in a little Host Where Jesus, my Spouse, is veiled for love. I go to that Divine Furnace to draw out life, And there my Sweet Saviour listens to me night and day.