Worrying helps you some. It seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery

I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.

It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.

After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance

It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.

My life is singing. I don't plan on retiring. I plan to die on a stage. I can have a headache but when it's time to sing and I step on that stage there is no more headache.

Some of you in this room support higher taxes. I welcome your enthusiasm and am glad to report that the IRS takes both money orders and checks.

Infidelity is horrible - there's nothing worse than that; it's devastating.

For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess.

More precious than life is love, for there can be no life without love.

All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.