The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.

He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.

Cops before breakfast.Before coffee even. As if Mondays weren't bad enough.

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.

To find them all in one package...well, perhaps better not to dwell on his package in my fragile state.

I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.

To create greatness, give away your life for the success of others.

Education is not filling up a box but seeing what you can create with one and don't you ever forget that!

Creativity is inventing experimenting growing taking risks breaking rules making mistakes and having fun.

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

Is a lie really a lie if it is honestly believed?

It feels like a punch. Tears fill my eyes, and I wonder how I could be upset over losing something I never had.

When I say, 'We're a team,' the reason why I point that out is because at 'All My Children,' that's the mindset. They're a team. And I've said this to other people: They're like a united front.

The winters will drive you crazy until you learn to get out into them.

We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.

I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.