She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met a woman.

They probably think the sun won't come up unless you're there to allow it.

I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad.

It was something, what must go through men's mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behave so strangely.

You should marry me", he said. "I will be good to you. I am not like these men. I have manners. You would see how kind I would be. I would never leave you. You could have an easy life.

He liked to get off by himself, a mile or so from camp, and listen to the country, not the men.

It was something he had always done - moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little.

He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.

It's funny, leaving a place, ain't it?" he said. "You never do know when you'll get back.

It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.

The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.

There's not enough time to say what I feel.

In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?

But when’s the last time you took a chance? Or didn’t do what someone else expected of you? Or did something you really wanted to, even though you probably shouldn’t have?

My step-dad is probably the greatest man I've ever known. The best advice I've ever been given was when he told me to enjoy my life because one day I'm not going to be as agile as I am now.

I never give up. If you beat me, you have to beat me one, three, four, five times, and I still don't give up.

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get away from it? Improvise.

Love has these three stages, and compassion accordingly has three stages, and both can exist in different combinations.

I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, "That's my ancestor." That will be my legacy.