The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

Mignon McLaughlin

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.

The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

The trouble with women is men; the trouble with men, men.

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

I am tired before the concert, not afterward.

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

I feel that special secret current between the public and me. I can hold them with one little note in the air, and they will not breathe. That is a great, great moment.

The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.

When I sit in Paris in a cafe, surrounded by people, I don't sit casually - I go over a certain sonata in my head and discover new things all the time.