To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.

The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.

When life throws trials and tribulations towards you, shield your destiny with courage, faith and perseverance.

Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.

Each time I get off a plane in Hollywood I don't think I'm pretty enough.

Why could you smoke all of those cigarettes? It’s not like they are making you better… they are killing you. It seemed real idiotic to me.

I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but the women work most for it.

I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas.

The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.

Boys with a failure to launch are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns? I have been changed to a hound with one red ear; I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns.