It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity

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?

REJECTION is kind of your negative ILLUSION which has no value but it’s give you a CLUE to go for next level of your ACTION.

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish.

Don’t wait for a genie to grant your wishes. That power is yours.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.

For me, trying to expand the energy to make one movie in Hollywood would be the equivalent in terms of energy to making 10 movies in Japan.

When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled and you're treated with kid gloves.

Losing sucks but I look at more what I gained as an individual, as an athlete..sometimes in losing you learn a lot.