I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

It seems when Opportunity knocks, Fate shows up to open the door.

When you walk this earth on borrowed time, each day on the calendar is a beloved friend you know for only a short time.

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.

The greatest part cannot know, and therefore they must believe.

The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.

I just always loved to perform and I was lucky enough to be in front of the right people at the right time!

On played the Mayor's daughters in Horton Hears a Who: I had never done animation, so I thought it would be cool to try something different.

The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.