One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.

the bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal, and things unseen are eternal.

The day is ours, and what the day has shown.

Definition of failure - wishful sinking!

You’re a princess. And princesses are never nervous. Princesses are brave and pretty and fearless.

Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.

I'd see child actors and I'd get so jealous, because they're just completely wide open.

Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature.

There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail.

When you're all alone, love one another.

In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.