It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

Individual identities and national destines were shaped by the tripod of history, geography, and philosophy.

Be happy that after living so many lives, I finally found something to die for

Te amo, Querida, " he whispered, stroking her hair. "Tu eres mi luz en la oscuridad." I love you. You are my light in the darkness.

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.

You have to break in half to love somebody.

I once met a beautiful, proper English girl. I bid her adieu.... she bid me a don't.

My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing . . . Long may our land be bright, With freedom's holy light; Protect us by Thy might, Great God, our King.