I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

...the uncomfortable appearance of a girl who was rapidly shooting up into a woman and didn't like it.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf of springtime.

I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race.

Precaution is better than a cure.

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

He breathed once more, holding the air in his chest, as if it were not air but something more--a sweet taste of freedom, of all cares lifted, everything over and done.

I went to the University of Life and was chucked out.

More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.

I feel lucky to be an actor because you always learn something from each part you play.

A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.