There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books.

There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done

It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.

The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.

There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real.

Time and space are only forms of thought.

Ladylike is the beastliest word there is, I think. If a girl isn't a lady, it isn't worth while to be only like one, she'd better let it alone and be a free and happy bounder.

Nobody can live in the past or the future without being something of a nut.

everything has an end, and you get to it if you only keep on.

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love him best of all.

Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader.

Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off.

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

The more we die, the stronger we will become

In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.

I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder . . . Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice.

The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Dreaming illustrates your hidden capacities and your unawakened ability.

As an actor, you use the things from yourself that you can apply to the character.