It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

What can I say at seventy-five? "Thank God for my good life, and for all the love that has been given to me.

Stories, ' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.

A fish might more easily live on the apex of a rock than a man accustomed to crime live a life of virtue. (“The Story of Prince Barkiarokh”)

Welcome everything that comes to you but do not long for anything else.

You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

I always thought models had to fit a certain mould. I never thought I had what it takes. I'm too small and my look's pretty weird.

Glamour is back, but with a minimalist touch.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'