Ladylike is the beastliest word there is, I think. If a girl isn't a lady, it isn't worth while to be only like one, she'd better let it alone and be a free and happy bounder.

There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done

It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.

The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.

There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books.

There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real.

Time and space are only forms of thought.

Nobody can live in the past or the future without being something of a nut.

everything has an end, and you get to it if you only keep on.

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love him best of all.

Fear of failure is closely connected with the apprehension of failure in any field of life, such as career, business, education of private life

Our emotions are encoded in the heart signals we emit. Use the energy you feel to know how they are feeling.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

Inspiration gives strength to do, what we are capable of doing.

God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.

If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be.

Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again.

Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.

I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.

I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.