you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.

The mind has a powerful way of attracting things that are in harmony with it, good and bad.

Be generous with your life - love deeply, honestly, and without reservation.

I wont let him have you.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.

Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.

In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.

Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.

As is well known, [Carrie Fisher] suffered - and was open about it. Her transparency was courageous, which is why people loved her.