Ideals are the world's masters.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

Joys divided are increased.

The temple of art is built in words.

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life and from their hands it comes in fair articulate forms to bless the world.

Nature is the master of talents genius is the master of nature.

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

God has the key to open the heart of every soul.

How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.

Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.

[On whether she would want daughter Tricia to marry a politician:] I would feel sorry for her if she did.

Wherever a beautiful soul has been there is a trail of beautiful memories.

Let us never lose courage or despair of God's mercy. We have only to humble ourselves before God in order to obtain grace to become all that we ought to be.