Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Not everyone man is a lover, not every love is the love.

The world is getting very much more competitive.

Even just pestering people with questions, and being nosey and pushy and getting her way, are things I think many young women grow up struggling with, to assert themselves.

I wish I knew that when I go in for an audition and I don't get the part, it actually doesn't have to do with me on a personal level.

The performance of a lifetime is the perfect thing to be doing at this age because I can use the age.

We're enjoying sluggish times, and not enjoying them very much.

Our comforts come from God; our sorrows, from ourselves.

You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.

As you explore your inner world, your outer world will come more sharply into focus. As you face your imagined barriers, you will encounter real ones, as well.

Back in the '80s, a lot of the images I used were from TV or from films on TV.