I have laid my cheek upon the earth and felt it my mother's bosom.

Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.

I do not really care what people do as long as they do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.

People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.

Oh dear me - it's too late to do anything but accept you and love you - but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once!

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.

[Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments.

Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears.

Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.

The path to joy and spiritual fulfilment requires the courage to change and grow.

In seasons of distress and grief My soul has often found relief And oft escaped the tempter's snare By thy return sweet hour of prayer.

For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.

Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.

You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.

There was a Young Lady of Poole, Whose soup was excessively cool; So she put it to boil, by the aid of some oil, That ingenious Young Lady of Poole.

Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.

If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.

I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided.

Where do we come from? Do souls really exist? I can't answer these questions, especially not at 6am.