Character demonstrates itself in trifles.

With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes.

A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected.

[Death:] The one inexorable thing!

Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

High above hate I dwell, O storms! farewell.

The fears of what may come to pass, I cast them all away, Among the clover scented grass, Among the new-mown hay.

Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.

I am not in the least given to any violent interest in womankind, however, such as has addled the country's brains of late. Give me a manandwoman world: 'tis good enough!

The hand betrays the heart.

In the space between wake and sleep, where the real world juxtaposes with the imagination, that's where I live.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Be honest, be brutally honest, and if you want something go out there and get it.

Embrace your inner lunatic.

You must remember this, a kiss is just a kiss.

The movies helped define how I should be as a person.

Dance for yourself. If someone else understands, good. If not, no matter. Go right on doing what interests you, and do it until it stops interesting you.

Donald Trump is not the real deal. I think as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio made that very clear.

Actually, I'm not super-kickass at a lot of things.