Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day

The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.

Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.

Doing your best means never stop trying.

I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'.

I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.

Everything that we criticize young actresses for, they're supposed to do because that's when we're supposed to make mistakes. And find out who we are.

I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite your tongue, careful or not, Upon the already-bitten spot.

I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.

The Cross is the way to Paradise, but only when it is borne willingly.

Learn to obey before you command.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.