...Here, beast, you shall be the chairman, and mind you call us to order." He leaned forward and dropped the cat on the empty seat.

Everything at the moment, my dear, no doubt seems disgusting. I know the mood too well. But being in that mood, Ross, is like being out in the frost. If we do not keep on the move we shall perish.

Demelza was beginning to feel like a lion tamer who has been putting his pets through their paces and finds them getting out of hand.

Joy passed, but happiness never completely disappeared; a touch of it would always remain to remind one it had been there. It was happiness that made one smile, then.

Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that paintings are produced.

You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.

In all of our deeds God looks at the intention, whether we do it for His sake, or for the sake of some other intention.

Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

When life's conditions don't equal your expectations you are unhappy, have no expectations only appreciations (especially in the area of relationships)

I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.

We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.