Driving like a man is one of her few foibles.

How do you ever hold on to anybody?

Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.

If you're scared, do something.

The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back.

I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the world and write stories about everything I see.

It is possible there are some things you want so badly that you will change your life to make them happen.

Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above quietly circumventing the law.

I ken who you are! You're Strathfearn's granddaughter. Julie Stuart, is it? Och, aye, Lady Julia! Well then, Lady Julia, tell me -- who don't you deserve a glass of water?

That is a terrifically intimate thing, you know? Letting a stranger light your cigarette. Leaning forward so he can hold a flame to your lips. Pausing to breathe in before you pull back again.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.

Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment.

To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.

The woman who needs to be liberated most is the woman in every man, and the man who needs to be liberated most is the man in every woman

A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.

The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.

I've always lived by the ocean and I always will. There's nothing like taking a walk and being able to smell the ocean breeze.

Sit the comedy out, and that done, when the Play's at an end, let the Curtain fall down.