I am thinking, ’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.

The meaning of everything is the meaning you give it, and your experiences are what you say they are.

...Human beings, little bags of thinking water held up briefly by fragile accumulations of calcium...

A true DreamChaser knows how to sacrifice beyond measure and live with the decision.

All my life I’ve been a lady bruiser, a wrong chooser, school refuser, drug abuser, born loser; clothes bummy, nose runny, it wasn’t funny

My life is an open book. With illustrations.

In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection.

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.

Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.

The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America.