Never be silent with persons you love and distrust, " Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.

A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

You see, " she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.

I can always get through to-day very nicely. It's to-morrow I can't live through

Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul.

I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen in halls of fancy.

Oh, I don't wonder babies always cry when they wake up in the night. So often I want to do it too.

If the bards of old the true has toldThe sirens have raven hair.But over the earth since art had birth, They paint the angels fair.

Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.

Jesus taught us how to pray because The Lord's Prayer is the spiritual image of the Ten Commandments.

It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

If there's one thing I'm good at, it's putting people in their place.

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

Sometimes you just have to reach out and grab what you want, even when they tell you not to. This is something that I've struggled with my whole life long.

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

Some touch of Nature's genial glow.