Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.

Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.

I do not really care what people do as long as they do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.

People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.

Oh dear me - it's too late to do anything but accept you and love you - but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once!

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.

[Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments.

Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

I have laid my cheek upon the earth and felt it my mother's bosom.

Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears.

Flying in a modern jet airplane doses the human with levels of radiation comparable to those found in nuclear disaster zones.

And all I did was read, and when I was too high to read I stared out the windows.

Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.

The jihadists ideology cannot be wiped out with force much less killed. You know, unless we understand the root causes of this, we're going to perpetuate this violence over and over again.

Do not look down, brooding over your weakness! Do not look back upon your past, strewn with failure! Look up to the living Christ!

Well I think effects are tools

Passion creates energy and magnetically pulls co-workers and customers into a shared vision, and it is exceptionally strong when linked with a leader's values.

I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche.

Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?

Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.