Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery

I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.

It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.

Like the morning sun, raise the brightness of your love to include everyone.

Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.

Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.

I don't think anything I could ever do could make Gene Kelly look better than he was.

I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.

I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that's a cliche.

We win or the alumni bash in our teeth. (On the dental plan at NC State)

Shame is the shadow of love.

In all cases where doubt crops up, ask yourself, "If I had a gun to my head and had to do it, how would I do it?" It's not as hard as you think.