I accept the universe!

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels.

In life, I have learnt that the more I learnt about life, the sadder I became and the sadder I became the desire to learn about life increased.

What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a given time and place.

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. I was in Japan and someone held out a photo of him for me to sign.

When you work really hard, and it's organic and together, you can have more fun.

When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.

Surely there is no greater garden for human-nature study than the flotsam and jetsam of the hospital.