Perhaps, she says (Madame de la Rougierre), Other souls than human are sometimes born into the world & clothed in human flesh.

But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.

What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same.

Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.

Women are so enigmatical - some in everything - all in matters of the heart. Don't they sometimes actually admire what is repulsive?

There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down.

I did not know till now how irresolute a character was mine.

The precautions of nervous people re infectious, and persons of a like temperament are pretty sure, after a time, to imitate them.

But curiosity is a restless and unscrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.

Forgiving yourself, believing in yourself and choosing to love yourself are the best gifts one could receive.

A diamond is just a rock that refused to break under heat and pressure.

It stands to reason that anyone who learns to live well will die well. The skills are the same: being present in the moment, and humble, and brave, and keeping a sense of humor. (361)

I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.

Acting is a different discipline. On stage I'm free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.

Football lost its excitement for me.

Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity.

I'm a Libra, I always have two sides of everything.

You've got first-generation Americans here who are going to be poorer than their parents. That's never happened in the States before, and it's going to have massive social repercussions here.

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.