I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning—raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.

...I wondered why so much had been written about love's pain and so little about the glorious relief of being delivered from love's pain.

One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. There’s always something just ahead.

that old Mrs. Bishop was lacking in the qualities that make a good mother. And saying it that way makes her sound a good deal better than she really was.

There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.

But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible without breach of duty and sin, so are they more galling.

With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

I feel like a steaming cow-pat - or a car that's clocked up 400,000 miles in one journey.

What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.

I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

We face a far greater risk of psychological depression than of economic recession.

I think less is more in terms of makeup in general.