The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard.

You know how some people are - they always feel they have to do things for other people's good, no matter what happens to the other people in the process!

One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.

A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.

Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if not to fame and fortune.

Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!

Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.

A compensation is something which does not quite compensate.

the only door into her bedroom led through the church.

A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.

scales are the grammar of music.

Our success depends on goal-oriented, focused actions, not on distractions.

Movie and television stars lay down the law offashions, manners, speech, and even moral behavior. It has been proven that a movie or a television program can brainwash.

Of course I didn't have a boyfriend then. I didn't even have a camp boyfriend then [at age of 13].

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.

All the human beings I met were either sure that there would be no afterlife or else that they would get preferential treatment in the hereafter.

Money is God in action.

We need a leader who understands the moral case for free enterprise.

When you die, that does not mean that you lose to cancer.

The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.