I don’t know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment. 687
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. 720
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. 2.46K
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment – this very moment – to stay. 679
That’s what acting is – it’s about… having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters’ lives. 701
Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? 611
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. 748
I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy. 678
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. 771
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. 725
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. 612
I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do. 694
