His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

Secrecy begets tyranny.

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.

In the past few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.

If you wish to live a life free from sorrow think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

I've always had an interest in design, and I have always loved creating things.

It is always easier to capture eternity in the falling snow or along the coast where the waves crash and in solitary and lonely places. It is the quiet places where it is easiest to feel eternity.

As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.

I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.