marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Public school system status quo is indefensible.

Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers.

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

I'll miss it until the day I die, and I'm convinced to this day that I can get on a horse and jump a course of fences satisfactorily. It doesn't leave you.

With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

For me, art begins when there is something left that cannot be explained.

Make your home God's home and there will be light, love and abundance

I'll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.