It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

In the grand timeline of life, two years is nothing. Here she is, her dream resurrected. Alive and soon to be kicking in fact. Dead isn't always dead.

There is a myth at the heart of things and some element of genius in the heart of each person.

They say that God doesn't give you more than you can handle.Tell that to her.

Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition.

Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood-Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.

If I could have dinner with anyone who lived in history, it would depend on the restaurant.

The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.