Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Each soul is potentially divine.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.