Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Those clouds are angels' robes.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.

The psychology of the change is that “People like to change, but do not want to be changed and there is the difference.

Please clean your plate dear, the Lord above can see ya. Don't you know people are starving in Korea.

I did important films when I was very young.

It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.

The goal of society in general is to succeed in the world, whereas the goal of enlightenment is to transcend beyond it.

I was born in Santa Monica but brought up abroad so I don't use English much.

Fear is like fire; it can be helpful if you know how to use. If not, you'll get burned.

Fear is faith in reverse gear.

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.