We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

The living are just the dead on holiday

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.

Photography and painting, all of that fed into my directing eventually.

We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.

When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy.

O ruthless, perilous, imperious hate, you can not thwart the promptings of my soul.

One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.

The room is full of such talent. It's a beautiful thing about the SAG Awards. It's the most rewarding room to be in as an actor.

A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.

I don't know if you know who you are, until you lose who you are.