It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.

Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

My father says that there is only one perfect view — the view of the sky straight over our heads, and that all these views on earth are but bungled copies of it.

It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.

She grew more and more vexed with his dignified behavior. By a cruel irony, she was drawing out what was best in his disposition.

A matter neither sensual nor sensational is ignored by the art of today.

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.

Forgiveness isn't simply an option or a good idea; it is mandatory for our restorative process.

Gossip is a kind of misalignment with people around you. You can either gossip about everyone, or you can become one with everyone.

I think having wild, huge hair, is me being my own version of a lioness.

Elvis up in Michigan and maybe out in Mars.

I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.

If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.