Ruth Draper Quotes:

all my wealth is in my memories.

source: - Ruth Draper, Dorothy Warren (1999). “The Letters of Ruth Draper: Self-portrait of an Actress, 1920-1956”, p.134, SIU Press

Topics: Memories, Wealth

the trouble with success is - it takes all your time. And you can't do the things you really want to do!

source: - Ruth Draper, Morton Dauwen Zabel (1960). “The art of Ruth Draper: her dramas and characters”

Topics: Success, Want, Trouble

... as long as we go on loving and working life is worth while.

source: - Ruth Draper, Dorothy Warren (1999). “The Letters of Ruth Draper: Self-portrait of an Actress, 1920-1956”, p.141, SIU Press

Topics: Long, Goes On, Life Is

... accepting and feeling sympathy and love is not so healing as giving it.

source: - Ruth Draper, Dorothy Warren (1999). “The Letters of Ruth Draper: Self-portrait of an Actress, 1920-1956”, p.147, SIU Press

Topics: Healing, Love Is, Giving, Sympathy And Love

Courage, enthusiasm, awareness -- if only one can keep these to the end.

Topics: Enthusiasm, Awareness, Ends

Try to look at everything through the eyes of a child.

Topics: Children, Eye, Perspective, Eyes Of A Child, Through The Eyes

Life is too wonderful, too full, too short and strength too limited to contain its wonder.

source: - Ruth Draper, Dorothy Warren (1999). “The Letters of Ruth Draper: Self-portrait of an Actress, 1920-1956”, p.26, SIU Press

Topics: Life, Wonderful, Too Short

He said I was the most sensitive person he had ever seen- that I belonged to the hyper-hyper type and we rarely survive!

source: - Ruth Draper, Morton Dauwen Zabel (1960). “The art of Ruth Draper: her dramas and characters”

Topics: Sensitive, Said, Type, Sensitive Person, Hyper