I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.

Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

I would have gone too but I wanted to come straight back to you.I kept thinking of you, waiting here, all by yourself, not knowing what was going to happen.

Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me.""Do you mean you want a secretary or something?""No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.

We've got a bond in common, you and I. We are both alone in the world.

There was something rather blousy about roses in full bloom, something shallow and raucous, like women with untidy hair

I know that age, it's a particularly obstinate one, and a thousand bogies won't make you fear the future. A pity we can't change over.

I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.

... first learn to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole

You can't lose what you serve. That's the secret. What you serve, you can't lose. What you don't serve and what you try to hold onto, you can't hold onto. It's always slipping out of your fingers.

I thought it was very humanitarian of Sean Penn and Madonna to marry each other. That way, they make only two people miserable instead of four.

We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.

There's something touching about a kid who's reading a book that's printed on actual paper. I think that anything that kids start reading, within reason, can lead to other discoveries.

What scares me is how easily it happened.

Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying to put on its shoes.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

Every land or property owner in America would be tickled to death to pay 45 per cent of his profits, if he didn't have to pay anything if he didn't make it.