The deepest insult which can be shown to a human being is to associate it solely with material functions, with no cognizance and no consideration of its intellectual and spiritual power.

The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul.

A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely To-morrow lies.

Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence?

The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.

What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?

To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first and late, A work too late for fame.

He balanced in space with the book in his sweating cold fingers.

Adlai Stevenson - a Henry James character in a Reader's Digest world.

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.

I just want to work with good filmmakers and do good projects that mean something to me and play interesting characters. That's really it.

You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

I have a lot of hang-ups in life with men. I'm not very trusting.

Cars and women are a lot alike. They lie about the milage.

Me and Jesus got our own thing going on. We don't need anybody to tell us what it's all about.

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.