I know that age, it's a particularly obstinate one, and a thousand bogies won't make you fear the future. A pity we can't change over.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.

Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child.

I would have gone too but I wanted to come straight back to you.I kept thinking of you, waiting here, all by yourself, not knowing what was going to happen.

Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me.""Do you mean you want a secretary or something?""No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.

We've got a bond in common, you and I. We are both alone in the world.

There was something rather blousy about roses in full bloom, something shallow and raucous, like women with untidy hair

Sounds like you're trying to say that creation of new alternate worlds is a conscious decision.''I'm not trying to say it - I just said it.

Every new travel brings new transformation.

My fascination with history is as much about the present as it is about the past.

We must accept our pain Change what we can and laugh at the rest

With any president it is difficult to predict how the world will be effected by his presence in the white house.

One war only breeds another.

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.

All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

Fitz: How bad is it? Nighteyes: Mind your own business. Fitz: You ARE my business. Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn’t loosen it. Fitz: I’m not sure about THAT.