It is a strange thing to read a letter after the writer is dead - a bitter-sweet thing, in which pain and comfort are strangely mingled.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery

I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.

It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.

Make sure you don't carry the burden of the whole world on your shoulders, just in case someone needed them to cry.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum

The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.

These are the days for strong men to courageously expose wrong.

That which never has been, never is, and never will be.

The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.

Ice and iron cannot be welded.

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.