Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it.

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.

there are few things harder to imagine than other people’s conversations about yourself.

The uglier the storm the lovelier the rainbow.

The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

Our actions are reflections, not of who we are, but who we think we are.

Never under-estimate the value of an idea

Let the past drift away with the water.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

Life is like The Muppet Show, but instead of Muppets there's anxiety.

Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic government] took seven centuries to traverse.

It is good to get an all round experience especially when you have never been on a movie set.

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.