The sky was pure opal now.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

I want to take time to understand life. I want to travel. I want to be a better person, a better Mom. I want to do something good with my life.

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things. And here we are with our crash helmets on, with concertina wire all around us.

Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.

even if I do not see the fruits, the struggle has been worthwhile. If my life has taught me anything, it is that one must fight.

Do as I have taught you, and you will stay alive.

None of us knows how long he shall live or when his time will come. But soon, all that will be left of our brief lives is the pride our children feel when they speak our names.

He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

I always have kind of underneath feeling of peace of mind that I get from just the basic tenants of spirituality.