Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.

there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.

To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.

Heed the spark or you may dread the fire.

It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.

Girls! Girls! Those of you who have hearts, and therefore a wish for happiness, homes and husbands by and by, never develop a reputation for being clever.

There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right.

Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable.

In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.

I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

All love is socioeconomic. It’s the gradients in status that make arousal possible.

Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

I like to eat and the only thing I've ever been addicted to in my life is sugar.

Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped.

When you live in a leading lady's body, which I do, you have to constantly prove that you are funny.

Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.

I thought people would think I only wanted to be an actor because my dad was, rather than because I had an innate calling.

In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish.