From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Feminism has its virtues, but I think we're pushing too hard, upsetting ourselves too much.

Hollywood can't believe that anyone does anything without an eye on the public, as if every actor wants to read about himself in the papers. It's depressing to…

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it did alright by me.

Ad Graecas literas totum animum applicui; statimque, ut pecuniam accpero, Graecus primum autores, deinde vestes emam.

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love;

I really learned it all from mothers.