Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.

We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men

I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.

A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't

It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not possessors, lovers and not masters.

Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time.

Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.

Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.

Samuel FB Morse's SECOND question over the telegraph was, "Have you any news?

Making night hideous.

Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.

It is very important for me to be taken seriously for my science and not for my looks or other personal accomplishments.

He is able who think he is able.

For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.

But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

For an American president to be aiding America's enemy in developing nuclear weapons technology is unprecedented, absolutely.

In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional... What a special case I was.