The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Kindness is always fashionable.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Forethought spares afterthought.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

She surveyed the carnage behind him. "Did you have fun?"He showed her his teeth. "Yes.

Believing in or trusting fate is akin to gambling.

A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled.

I don't think I've ever died on stage. I've had jokes that died on stage. I've told a joke and absolutely nothing. They didn't know it was the end of the joke.

We need the courage to face the truth about what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it.

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

You're just a natural beehive, filled with honey to the top. Well, I ain't greedy baby, all I want is all you got.

I am a little extrovert.

Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.

Nature is an unpleasing, stupid, lumpy, blowsy wench.