I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Biti dobro upućen u stvari znači lišiti druge mogućnosti da udovolje svojoj taštini, što će pametan čovek uvek nastojati da izbegne.

In the right context you can make words do all kinds of things.

After all, it seemed far nobler to give up one’s life to the light than to the dark.

You are perfectly cast in your life. I can't imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play.

Blood sin and desecration of the race are the original sin in this world and the end of a humanity which surrenders to it.

Remember this although timing in life is everything, memorable moments in history don't just happen! Do something...stay positive!

I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.

Unemployment is low, incomes are up, poverty is down - and that's going to be a lasting change.

A lot of boxers' features change - mainly when I fight 'em

Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.

The way they dress here (California), your head is always in the stands. All those bikinis, your eyes get tired.