Kiki Ebsen

We want to reproduce all those instruments which were prepared and used in America once upon a time.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people.

But I do know there are not enough syllables to spell out how much I love you. I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love… You are my every moment, my every hour, my every day, my every season, and I know this isn’t poetry and it’s certainly not a haiku, it’s just all the things I needed to say to you.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t, either.

Treat everyone as if they were a guest in your own house, because in reality, they are a guest in your own world.

If you keep your head in the sand, you don’t know where the kick’s coming from.

[To Robertson] I think you should move to California. Malibu is paradise. You can always change your mind. Why don’t you just let me put this together? I’ll get you a house in the Malibu Colony.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

I realize that advice is worth what it costs – that is, nothing.

Many unkind people have done kind things. Doing acts of kindness is not the same as occupying kindness, of being kindness.

The concept of shaking hands is absolutely terrible, and statistically I’ve been proven right.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

It doesn’t matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop.

“I can’t do it” never accomplished anything; “I will try” has performed miracles.