But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant’s grip — one’s faculties rise in revolt — and one pays for outward calm with an almost unbearable inner struggle.

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.

I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

Conventionality is not morality.

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

Remind your bones that that dance inside something worthy

We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.

It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.

With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.

You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

We can't see and we can't reach the frontiers of our ignorance; we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge.

A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality

I really want to work with Adele, I think she's amazing. Lykke Li as well. I love them both. I'd also like to work with The Script. I met them in Australia and we just got on like a house on fire.