Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.

Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear

I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child.

I would have gone too but I wanted to come straight back to you.I kept thinking of you, waiting here, all by yourself, not knowing what was going to happen.

Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me.""Do you mean you want a secretary or something?""No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.

We've got a bond in common, you and I. We are both alone in the world.

There was something rather blousy about roses in full bloom, something shallow and raucous, like women with untidy hair

I know that age, it's a particularly obstinate one, and a thousand bogies won't make you fear the future. A pity we can't change over.

If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.

Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him and perhaps offend Him? 'Tis to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear.

Chiropractic makes me feel a few inches taller each time I come out.

I would say, compared with the 19th century, compared with most previous history, this is as good or better a society than any which man has ever made. But that doesn't mean it is such a good one.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

What I like about The Sims is that I don't have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have these really boring, mundane lives. It's fun.

Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale... from hell's heart I stab at thee.

American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.

I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.