I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.
When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture.
Sweet April-time-O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and red lips with longing paled, And backward-hidden hands that clutch the joys Of vanished springs, like flowers.
How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.
The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.
Unless a woman has a decided pleasure and facility in teaching, an honest knowledge of everything she professes to impart, a liking for children, and, above all, a strong moral sense of her responsibility towards them, for her to attempt to enroll herself in the scholastic order is absolute profanation.
Loud wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains, Fresh wind, free wind, blowing from the sea, Pour forth thy vials like streams from airy mountains, Draughts of life to me.
love is the only thing we have to save us
To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.
There are, almost by definition, an unlimited number of Hells - potentially at least a personal one for every living sapient being.
When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.