“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you.

Sometimes it also helps to have a bit less pride.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Better lose your life than your soul.

You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit.

Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.

And I, love, am a pathological liar.

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.