Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Those clouds are angels' robes.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.

Before you begin scrambling up the ladder of success, make sure that it is leaning against the right building.

Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone, I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One. I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done.

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.

The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.

Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community.

Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.

Friendship is one soul in two bodies.

Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.

American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.