Ladies tell their nurses things in a sudden burst of confidence, and then, afterwards, they feel uncomfortable about it and wish they hadn't! It's only human nature.

In my opinion, the state of mind of a community is always directly due to the influence of the man at the top.

The popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

After all, perhaps dirt isn't really so unhealthy as one is brought up to believe.

Somehow, the more I get older, and the more I see of people and sadness and illness and everything, the sorrier I get for everyone.

We do all these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire, it comes later.

I think Mrs. Leidner seems happier already from just talking about it. That's always a help, you know. It's bottling things up that makes them get on your nerves.

It seems odd that as far as I know nobody has yet been murdered for having too perfect a character! And yet perfection is undoubtedly an irritating thing!

A susceptible child is capable of great hero worship, and a young mind can easily be obsessed by an idea which persists into adult life.

It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.

Vacation is my Medication

You still don’t get it, Clark, do you?’ I couldhear the smile in his voice. ‘It’s not your choice.

What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time.

From bell to bell, from when my entrance plays and I step through that curtain, people have to wonder what's going on inside that guy's head.

No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.