Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

The road to success begins with knowing what you need to know and why

Boys annoyed her. Girls annoyed her. She should have been a cat.

Can one man's madness be another's real life?

The supernatural does not exist.

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

Some of my best friends are FBI agents.

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow.

Why, what a temper you are in!

Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals in tantamount to blatant savagery.

I think I'm a better comedic actress than I am a dramatic actress, but everybody believes I'm this dramatic actress and I'll take it.