If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

Too much alleged ‘fantasy’ is just empty sugar, life with the crusts cut off.

The Maker is the Great Master.

So maybe that’s what love means. Having the capacity to forgive the one who wronged you, no matter how deep the hurt was.

DANWhat do you want?ALICETo be loved.DANThat simple?ALICE It's a big want.

Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.

Belane, are you nuts?" Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?

You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.

Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.

Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.

When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.