"They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything."

"Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!"

"There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind."

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men."

"For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort."

"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."

"Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt."

"Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream."

"Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years."

"We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."

"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

"I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it."