It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid work.

There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done

It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.

The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.

There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books.

There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real.

Time and space are only forms of thought.

Ladylike is the beastliest word there is, I think. If a girl isn't a lady, it isn't worth while to be only like one, she'd better let it alone and be a free and happy bounder.

Nobody can live in the past or the future without being something of a nut.

everything has an end, and you get to it if you only keep on.

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

Within our emotions lie answers, truths and instructions.

If you pray for thy neighbour, you sow a seed of love in thy heart.

Touch my children and I will eat your hands off your freakin arms.

How can one ever know anything if they are too busy thinking?

Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.

I have always believed that hair is a very sure index of character.

I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.

Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.

Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.