I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.

It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine

Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them.

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

Oh its delightful to have ambitions. Im so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them thats the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

Its delightful when your imaginations come true isnt it

A favor is never so long lived as a grudge.

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.

The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.

A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.

No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.

All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.

Red hair is my life long sorrow.

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

The stories a society tells about itself are a measure of how it values itself, the ideals of democracy, and its future.

The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.

I'm not a nostalgic person: I never look back; I always forget.

I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don't want to be here or something like that.

I think I need a little break. I've got a two-year old. I'll be part of The Leisure Class for a while.

It was a lovely feeling, dying. I can remember being in the hospital, all wired up to tubes and thinking, 'If only you'd take these tubes out, it feels so nice.' It felt so - it felt like being in a bath of velvet. It was such a nice feeling. Everything felt so soft and floppy, and I wanted to go.

I want to be living out of a suitcase in a different city every day.

Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great. To many people, being nice in order to be liked is more important. There's equal merit in that, but you must not confuse being good with being liked.

Trust in the great American ingenuity. We can derive more intelligent, more brain-friendly ways we can play football.

It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground.

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.

Everything does not happen according to a plan, and you learn your lessons the hard way.

Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.

The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.

Muddy Waters, I suppose, was my first great hero. You know, every boy wants to be a guitar player, and Muddy Waters was just the king. He was the King Bee. He was it.

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

I'm sure the other kids wouldn't mind not being lectured by another toddler over the virtues of sharing and the mental benefits of toy blocks.

God loves you and everything about you, so why beat up on your precious self?

There is no mystery thats the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other and yet we stay. What a miracle that is.

I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.