"When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love."

“Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.”

“Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a woman, and in tune with your femininity, and still be equal.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“There is nothing more inspiring than having a mind unfold before you. Let people teach who have a calling. It is never just a job.”

“I heard my first laughter on stage, when I was about 10 years old. It was gold pantomime and I remember I was playing Baron Fitznoodle, who was the father of the ugly sisters in "Cinderella." And I walked on and got a great big laugh and I thought that was fantastic, until I looked down and found that my flies were open. And so I always check my flies. I even check my flies on radio.”

“Look at her - I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way - what bliss.”

Source : "Fictional character: Gomez Addams". "The Addams Family", www.imdb.com. 1991.

“This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?”

Source : Marguerite Yourcenar (1994). “Fires”, p.99, University of Chicago Press

“Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.”

“I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?”