Improving intelligence is possible, but it is more likely to occur if children are given the right experiences at the right ages.

But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Find excuses to live. Find excuses to be happy. The world provides enormous opportunities to the courageous.

They are not happy out there. Take a walk today and look at how many people smile. Look at how troubled they are, unhappy, stressed out. Go through the ghetto or go through Beverly Hills.

Spring sprang suddenly onto the land.

Death can be hastened but never shared.

I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields.

As for worrying about what other people might think - forget it. They aren't concerned about yours. They're too busy worrying about what you and other people think of theirs.

When you love someone, you should see beyond their image.

No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical

I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.