Freedom, you see, is having events go in accordance with our will, never contrary to it.

Don't put your purpose in one place and expect to see progress made somewhere else.

Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.

So what oppresses and scares us? It is our own thoughts, obviously, What overwhelms people when they are about to leaves friends, family, old haunts and their accustomed way of life? Thoughts.

And where there is ignorance, there is also want of learning and instruction in essentials.

We should realize that an opinion is not easily formed unless a person says and hears the same things every day and practises them in real life.

It isn't death, pain, exile or anything else you care to mention that accounts for the way we act, only our opinion about death, pain and the rest.

True success is the soundness of being.

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

Even a lie told for a good purpose has a way of perpetuating itself, doesn't it? Look at all the trouble I caused by refusing to tell the truth about Sarah's father."- Nell

Seriously, that woman is so much crazy crammed into a small space that she's practically a crazy singularity.

I travel all over the world, usually 10 months out of the year. I stay at a lot of hotels, and the ones I like best are clean and not complicated. You go to bed and say, 'Wow, I feel comfortable.'

The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

When no one is looking, I swallow deserts and clouds and chew on mountains knowing they are sweet bones! When no one is looking and I want to kiss God, I just lift my own hand to my mouth.

I came up to New York at 20 with a suitcase and a ceramic tiger. That was my one piece of furniture and I wanted to save it.