You see, " she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.

A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

I can always get through to-day very nicely. It's to-morrow I can't live through

Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul.

I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen in halls of fancy.

Never be silent with persons you love and distrust, " Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.

Oh, I don't wonder babies always cry when they wake up in the night. So often I want to do it too.

If the bards of old the true has toldThe sirens have raven hair.But over the earth since art had birth, They paint the angels fair.

Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.

Without love, life is empty and has no beauty.

You can't be conferred with a glory you never configured your mind to come to.

I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.

They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly.

Dishonesty increases disorder exponentially. It's hard enough to communicate when you're telling the truth.

You can't prevent World War III. You don't have any juice. In fact, World War III will free you. ... Your time has come.

God has work for you to do.

Every time I toe the rubber, it's no different for me than it was in the World Series.

T was a brilliant feeling to make my debut and to hear the crowd chanting my name. It made me play much better.

I never sort of really regret anything because you make your choices and I like to stand by them.