"I went out every single night so I was never alone with my stepfather. At 12, I stopped going on holiday with them. The times I was alone with him I always made sure I was all covered up"

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man"

"What a nice night for an evening"

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress"

"Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night"

"In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day"

"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can"

"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do"

"So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!"

"Dread of night. Dread of not-night"

"Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree"