Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.

But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.

What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same.

Perhaps, she says (Madame de la Rougierre), Other souls than human are sometimes born into the world & clothed in human flesh.

Women are so enigmatical - some in everything - all in matters of the heart. Don't they sometimes actually admire what is repulsive?

There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down.

I did not know till now how irresolute a character was mine.

The precautions of nervous people re infectious, and persons of a like temperament are pretty sure, after a time, to imitate them.

But curiosity is a restless and unscrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.

Relationships take work. It isn’t true love if things go smoothly.

Use your voice for good in this world, it may not seem like it's getting you anywhere, but in the end good wins.

I trust the Universe Implicitly, therefore my experience is happening FOR me and not TO me. I trust the Universe. I trust the process.

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

The secret is in realizing your internal gifts and then setting them free.

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.

Society forces you to conform.

I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials by the time I was 6. I must have been a natural, because I never took an acting lesson.

There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.