One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.

Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.

Do not pay attention to my cousins. Every family needs a couple idiots and we keep them around for entertainment.

There's the bullshit you know that you know

When you're afraid because you don't know what comes next, I will be there to love you through it. So, I guess today, I'm asking you to let me.

Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! - As Margo Channing in All About Eve

We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare and precious beauty.

Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior

I am treated no different than the other girls.

You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?

He that hath slight thoughts of sin, never had great thoughts of God.

The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return.