Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

Literature is a sacred knowledge.

When happiness is liked by me and others equally, what is so special about me that I should strive after happiness only for myself?

Not smoking is not an achievement. Like virginity, it comes standard.

It's always once the script's done in the first two years if it doesn't get going somehow or another, I've never had an old script that someone's made later on.

We need to give everybody a chance, treat everybody with respect, and let them share in this great American dream that we have.

I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.

They who have steeped their souls in prayer Can every anguish calmly bear.

Without the concentration of the mind and the will, performance would not result.

God made the Illusion look Real and the Real an Illusion !

Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.