Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

We can only love what we know.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

The first pale blossom of the unripened year.

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

In the midst of battle, you need something versatile to keep your focus

We have taken the latter course as a culture. So there is mass confusion today--even in the evangelical church--over whether the Bible is true and over how far we should go in obeying it.

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

If you had to hurt somebody or intimidate them or kill them, it would be morally justifiable.

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

It is a regrettable, but undeniable, fact that the most delightful people are seldom big money-makers.

I'm the woman who used to think that middle-age spread was a cocktail dip.

What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale.

I type in one place, but I write all over the house.

The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.