The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us

Really, I protest--what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

A balance, I think, is needed, " Dr. Templeton said judiciously, "between the head and the heart: nothing easier to say: nothing harder to achieve.

Probably no purer incitement to hatred existed, Lydia had found, than being told of anyone or anything: you will love him, her or it. The spirit immediately rose up like a fanged cobra.

I confess I found it somewhat insipid when I last went....it was all so prosy - so bonnety - so whisty and teacuppy - you see, the adjectives for it do not even exist, and I must invent them.

I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.

The closest friends you'll have are the ones you'd take a bullet for, but they're the ones you constantly feel you could put a bullet in as well.

The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.

When I was younger, there were moments where I said, 'I'm not going to have children.' And then moments when I wanted four. And now I definitely want another, but I don't know when.

Experience is low; confidence is high.

The idea of excessive diversification is madness.

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

Before you can improve your life and find a measure of happiness, you must learn to do one thing every day out of pure love.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

If you're sincerely seeking God, God will make His existence evident to you.