People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.

I didn't see her love, but I felt itthrough the sun, the wind, and the raindrops

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

Whipping is fifty percent show and noise.

I'm not an educator ... I'm a learner.

For me, as an actress, being a dancer has helped me. I've done it with my feet bloody.

Theories are not rejected by cirsumstantial evidence: it takes a theory to beat a theory.

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole.