End of story. ‘Happily ever after’ fell on everyone like a guillotine’s blade.

The implication of this particular tale is: Trust strangers. Believe in magic.

One of the reasons ordinary people are incapable of magic is simple dearth of conviction.

It's the solitude that slays you. Maybe because you'd expected ruin to arrive in a grander and more romantic form.

To encourage people, walk beside them. To inspire people, walk in front of them. To drive people, walk behind them. To lead people, walk with them.

Why dwell on the pain, when you can focus on peaceful thoughts?

Lincoln had an almost childlike habit of regaling visitors with any sharp saying he'd uttered during the day, taking simple-hearted pleasure in some of his best hits.

Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.

A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any authority about it because of not having done it properly. For me, movies are what I love.

Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.

How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.

Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came together, and they won't coalesce ever again.

We will have a new Taylor album in October. The record is genius. I can't wait for the fans to hear it.