What is a hero without love for mankind.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

It was true. Men could be with whomever they pleased. But women had to date better, kinder, richer, and bright, bright, bright, or else people got embarrassed.

Experience alone can decide on truth.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

Forget purpose. It’s okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.

Let's let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?

The Highest Being reveals himself in man.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.