Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.

I'll borrow of imagination what reality will not give me.

Our power of being happy lies a good deal in ourselves, I believe.

Having a large world of his own in his own head and heart, he tolerated confinement to a small, still corner of the real world very patiently.

. . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves.

In her past were sweet passages, in her future rosy hopes.

He did not yet known how many commenced lefe-romances are doomed never to get beyond the first, or at most the second chapter.

Existence was never originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me among the rest.

I will bestir myself, ' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good.

Endurance over-goaded, stretched the hand of fraternity to sedition.

His mind has the clearness of the deep sea, the patience of its rocks, the force of its billows.

Self-esteem is felt even though you may not have done anything yet, but just feel the capability for it.

Somehow weddings bring out the most insane moments in people's lives.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

While I was travelling and I kind of had the classic realisation - that I guess most teenagers have at some point - that time's gonna run out and that's not in my power to change that.

I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire. [I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heir.]

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.

Before you measure the years, you measure the days.

I get told I'm too good-looking for a lot of roles. They don't write roles people would think I'm supposed to play as often as they used to - the rom-com pretty-boy storylines.

I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak.