A perfect marriage is like a pure heart ... those who have it are fit to see God.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure.

Imagination is built upon knowledge.

It is a sacred gladness for us to celebrate the holy birth of Jesus Christ.

Books always attract my attention.

If your government keep making big mistakes and in return you keep supporting your government, then you are the biggest mistake for your country!

If I'm a bad mood, I can't go on stage and smile.

Nothing says romance like hobos, martyrs and decapitations.

In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.

Other effects in the show included models of the ships which were extremely expensive to make. We used to do our shots in front of a blue screen and they'd put the effects on after.

The only unfair fight is the one you lose.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.