The perfect moment, once lost, is not easily found again.

Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.

He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.

In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.

To be sorry and glad together is to be perceptive to the richness of life.

The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.

Writers and painters have a medium that can foster self-effacements. Actors haven't. An actor can't hide himself behind paper or canvas. If you're not there your art's not there. That's why we actors are often such self-centered objects.