... when the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

I never lie, " I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

The future starts within a second from now.The past was, within a second ago.

Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.

London Fashion Week isn't the most organised, but I don't mind that. It's such an exciting place - it's small and cool.

Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.

Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.

As an African American actress there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact.

An aristocrat in morals as in mind.

Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.