"Love! Beyond meaure - beyond death - it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it."

-- John Galsworthy

“I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.”

Source : "Meet a matinee idol". The Scotsman Interview, www.scotsman.com. June 18, 2009.
“I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.”
“You have to be different to make a difference. You cannot change anything by adding more of the same. The greatest spiritual impact is made upon people by someone who is different from them. Others must see someone like Christ in us â€“- not someone like the rest of the world â€“- if we are to have any godly influence on them.”
“The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.”
“I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.”
“When you find a chillness upon your souls, and that your former heat begins to abate, ply yourselves with warm clothes, get those good books that may acquaint you with such truths as may warm and affect your hearts.”
“Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true andfalse but crucial questions of right and wrong, good and evil face the tragic character in a tragic situation.”
“I do not dislike but I certainly have no especial respect or admiration for and no trust in, the typical big moneyed men of my country. I do not regard them as furnishing sound opinion as respects either foreign or domestic business.”

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