It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

That aspects are within us; and who seems Most kingly is the King.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

There is honey in this land sweeter than any I know of, and I have cut cane in places where the dirt itself tasted like sugar, so that's saying a heap.

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.

A sure thing is no fun.

It's so hard for people to even believe that there was a lesson to be learned at all, because they just think I'm wrong.

I hope to keep working with television. I wouldn't mind doing more.

Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don't be afraid to be the best.

We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you cant airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc.