Perfect moments don’t turn into half-hours.

The Ten Commandments don’t tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can’t get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn’t grow up into.

Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness – never a list...

My soul has gained the freedom of the night.

It is never good dwelling on good-byes," she said, "it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.