How little has situation to do with happiness.

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

Credulity is the sister of innocence.

I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.

to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.

In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.

God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.

I like playing dress-up, and I love pretty jewels, but for me, being a movie star would be a very dangerous place.

I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.

Good-bye... why am I hemorrhaging ?

It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.

All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.

That is what I was more drawn to - creating stories while changing and altering reality.

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.