My exit is the result of too many entrees.

It's not the lack of ability or opportunity that holds you back; it is only a lack of confidence in yourself.

Love will always be the most powerful force.

I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still.

Great thoughts, great feelings came to them, Like instincts, unawares.

The virtue lies in the struggle, not the prize.

Grand Thoughts that never can be wearied out, Showing the unreality of Time.

They who have steeped their souls in prayer Can every anguish calmly bear.

He, who for Love has undergone The worst that can befall, Is happier thousand-fold than one, Who never loved at all.

A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet.

The beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard.

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

What you feed your soul is what you harvest with your actions.

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

One of the funny things of being a producer, you have these fleeting, intense relationships with people, and they go off to global megastardom, and you don't see them.

I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation.

I always think it's silly when people talk about works of culture taking risks. Because there's not any risk involved.

Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief.

It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

The strongest common bond between the genders is the universally acknowledged truth that both men and women are unhappy with their hair.

My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely certain that what I've written is any good.