Remember you belong to nature, not it to you.

Friends ask you how you are and wait for an answer.

No person is great in isolation. It takes many hands to shape a life. Denial would mean conceit, and conceit is not the same as self-respect.

We need only to close our eyes and we are back on the Third Line, walking up the lane, through the yard and entering the bright, warm kitchen. We are home again.

Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.

Anybody can leap off a building.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

In retrospect I would say from Donald Duck I have learned more about life than from all the schools I ever attended.

I have never suggested any principled difference between the natural and social sciences.

When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

I have drive, for sure. You have to. It's a tough business; there are a lot of actresses and not a lot of great roles. I don't want to complain because I'm so grateful.

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.