I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.

O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

There are no little things. "Little things," so called, are the hinges of the universe.

I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.

The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.

I really, really need some help and advice. I'm scared... I'm scared of my own home, of my own daughter!

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.

Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.

Either the camera will dance, or I will.

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!

The big turn in the late 90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. I was fairly sure I was going to be an actor for the rest of my life, which I think calmed me down.

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.

In looking for the keys of paradise, a pope may stoop a little; having found them, he should rise again.