The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

When I turned 60 it didn't bother me at all.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

I think at a child's birth if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift that gift should be curiosity.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person he believed in me.

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love that of the other's bed where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

If you want to be the best you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things but above all the power of going out of one's self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

A multitude of bees can tell the time of day calculate the geometry of the sun's position argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway.

At some point I would like to write a book and other things but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest but the happiest are usually the best.

I have lost my seven best friends which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship took it from me sent me another.

My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'

Next to being witty the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are others will want to be with you want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you're giving to them.

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

This is the great reward of service to live far out and on in the life of others this is the mystery of Christ - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.

Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

A man's sentiments are generally just and right while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates as it does in women with the indignation of righteousness.

The best place a person can die is where they die for others.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune and idleness its opposite never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.