I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

Credulity is the sister of innocence.

I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.

to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.

Paint your life and sketch your way

The best thing about waking up early is seeing the sun rise.

Spend 5 minutes breathing in, cherishing yourself; and, breathing out cherishing others. If you think about people you have difficulty cherishing, extend your cherishing to them anyway.

I am the Spirit that denies.

I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19.

Follow the saints, because those who follow them will become saints.

Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.

Spirituality is allowing compassion and love to flourish. When belongness begins, corruption ends.

Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.

All these teenagers tell us how much they want to grow up and then when they do they want to be young again.