However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Women always reveal their deepest secrets to each other.

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

Generally, I love being part of a project that imparts a positive message, is somehow educational or enlightening, helps to bridge differences, or inspires viewers in some way.

It's important to listen to the words of the enemy if you're in war.

I always did each show for about two years. So if you play the music, it just comes back to me.

I have been a Jack Albertson fan forever.

Rilla's heart skipped a beat — or, if that be a physiological impossibility, she thought it did.

What I like is bottomless flattery.

There is in the living being a thirst for limitlessness.

I'd much rather do one or two takes of one thing and then see how it goes.