What a revolution in her ideas!

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

With the wind of love, let your heart dance like a flower.

Success = Wisdom + Courage + Discipline. KNOW what to do, be BRAVE enough to do it, and LEAD YOURSELF to doing it again and again.

When you begin to expect miracles, Jesus feels insulted.

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

By the way, my tax cut is the biggest since Ronald Reagan. I'm very proud of it.

Davis is a literargy dyspeptic who had more ink than blood in his veins, an intriguer, buys with private enmities.

Consciousness is the screen. The images on the screen are your perceptions, the illusion that life is solid, that there is a material universe.

We all need to stomp out balkanization. No Spanish radio stations, no Spanish billboards, no Spanish TV stations, no Spanish newspapers. This is America, speak English.

The physical world is too good a gift to be reduced to an object lesson about 'spiritual things'.

I think all actors have a sadomasochistic streak, because acting is kind of brutal, you know.