But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Moonlight is sculpture.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence.

Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one is a sign of bondage but the other, of freedom.

The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

Live your life with a Burning Passion, with an Unquenchable Thirst for knowledge and wisdom.

The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction.

I knew I wanted to be an actress as soon as I popped out.

To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.

Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.

Sure, good things can go badly wrong. Nevertheless, there's always another day.

In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue.

This is a universe that does not favor the timid.