Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.

When you work for the Coens, they are so fun and so organized. They treat everyone with such respect. And the character I got to play was so fun.

People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?

Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person.

The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority.

Knowledge does have a way of making you an outcast.

I have a 20-year-old son, I have a 12-year-old son and I'm so afraid for them.

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

It's a simple fact: no individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complimentary sets of skills.