I always thought storytelling was like juggling [. . . ] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.
An annuity is a very serious business.
Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.
You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
I grew up with a lot of spirituality. It wasn't necessarily organized religion, because my mom was Jewish and my dad was Muslim. I went to Catholic school. There was a lot of conversation about comparative religions.
I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.
We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.
The improved means to the unimproved end.