"Are you thankful for not being young?'..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“"O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me."”

“We never tire of the friendships we form with books.”

“Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.”

“Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically?”

“A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.”

“I don't know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way - all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup - all the time. When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.”

“Negative thinking blows everything out of proportion.”

“To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.”

“YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake.”