I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up.

And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien.

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.

Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.

What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy.

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.

Did You wrap yourself inside the unexpected so we might know that Love would go that far?

There comes a moment when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York.

Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only the surface... .

There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway.