It takes a hell of a lot for a man to put up with me. I can be a handful.
Stories first heard at mothers knee are never wholly forgotten.
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.
A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.
Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.
Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.
Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!
The dignity of a woman's life is infinite, her status immeasurable, her capacity unbounded, her role divine. . . In the fast changing world of today her vision penetrates into the reality of the far beyond, the reality which endures beyond change.
Living in Hollywood, you can get disconnected from everybody. You can feel like you are the only one.
You can't have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice. If they come from human choice, then our whole way of life is meaningless, it has no foundation.
We had a word with him about diving and since then the lad's come on leaps and bounds.