Man is dust. Rue is rain. Life is mud.

When I count my blessings, I find you in every one.

I love you" means I want you to be happy.

Music is happiness with a steady pulse.

Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.

Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind.

Laugh and smile for no reason at all. Giggle grins are a magnet for happiness.

Life can seem like a gloomy wait in the thick of black shadows.And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.

Nothing can squelch your fire except turning your back on the thing that fuels it.

The rarest, truest beauty is visible only to the heart.

The real beauty of a woman is most clearly seen in the smiles of those who interact with her.

There is nothing so convincing as a thing well done.

The light that doesn't see its darkness but that of others is the darkness in the light of the light

No matter how hard I try to forget you, you always come back to my thoughts When you hear me singing I am really crying for you.

Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.

Only the guilty and the lovers really fear. The first because of what they are, the second for what they might lose.

I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

If I'm in something that I think is kinda good, it stays with me like a fever dream for a long time afterwards. I don't recall the finished product so much as the feeling of making it.

I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.

Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.

The way we have been playing, I might tell my players not to cross the picket line (umpire strike of 1979).