Pity's tears are spontaneous.

Women endowed with remarkable sensibilities enjoy much; but they also suffer much.

Mme. Deluzy has said that indifference is a woman's guardian angel,--a remark not only applicable in France, but all over the world.

Every natural movement is graceful. Did you ever watch a kitten at play?

Beautiful thoughts flit across the brain, like butterflies in the sun's rays, and are as difficult to capture.

Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth [gems] of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession.

Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.

There is always a half-malicious curiosity amongst actors to witness the shortcomings of a novice. They invariably experience strong inclinations to prophesy failure.

The more aspiration is partial realization.

Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.

The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.

Don't expect too much from yourself. What I like to do when I have a day off is make various cookie doughs and freeze them. Then I always have that on hand if I need it.

The only thing better than one of my songs is one of my songs with a glass of scotch.

In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.

Manuel will show you to your rooms - if you're lucky.

Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?

I love street races; theres something about racing in the middle of a city.

How can someone who means so much to a person mean nothing the next day?

I still consider myself a very spiritual person but the structure of the church isn't really for me.