Sometimes it seemed difficult for the adults in Sophie's life to tell between 'carried away' and 'absolutely correct but unbelieved.

I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.

It's like eight thousand birds, Charles! Charles! Isn't it like eight thousand birds?

I think, actually, everyone starts out with some strange in them. It's just whether or not you decide to keep it.

Books crowbar the world open for you.

No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening.

You will never be tougher than you are now. Children are the toughest creatures on the planet. They endure.

You have been the great green adventure of my life. Without you my days would be unlit.

It is difficult to believe extraordinary things.

Let me introduce you. Sophie, this is Miss Eliot, from the National Childcare Agency. Miss Eliot, this is Sophie, from the ocean.

Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.

For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.

I probably shouldn't treat interviews as therapy sessions, but I don't keep a diary, so these end up being my way of keeping track of where I'm at and letting it all out.

Some people... some people like cupcakes Exclusively, while myself, I say, There is naught nor ought there be nothing So exalted on the face of god's grey Earth as that prince of foods... the muffin!

Nobody teaches life anything.

The body is the instrument of the soul.

Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it, the most complete work of nature, and man is her masterpiece.

Waste today, want tomorrow.

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.