"A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away."

"Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting."

"It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me."

"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."

"I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you."

"The bad guys are the best parts."

"I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual."

"The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies."