The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them — I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them — the point is that I know a good person when I see one.

The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.

Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.

You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.

Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.

If you can't look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.

I think people make their own faces, as they grow.

It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.

I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.

Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!

We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.

I'm sure I'll feel much more grateful when I find a guy who thinks complex wiring in a girl is a turn-on.

Anything that tends to make us elated is inevitably going to throw us into depression.

Success stories may be great motivational material for sales seminars, but we are not always successful.

Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.

My husband is very supportive and is there for the kids, especially when I'm in projects such as The Color Purple.

The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul.

Very well. You may help me exterminate the Society of Wizards.

Silence is also conversation.

. . . And some people sing and dance.

I like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches.