I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart’s blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling.

It takes courage to own up your actions that hurt others, to look Into the eye and to mean the sorry, To accept the mistake and not deny, all of this needs courage.

There's nothing quite like the pleasure you get from plants and flower, " he said to himself. "They certainly do cheer you up.

I'm not an exhibitionist. But, honestly, for my art I'll do anything almost. I'll go there.

I know I am unreasonable about people but there are so many wonderful people whom I can't take the time to know.

Every man has his secret sorrows.

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

Unfortunately, very few people in America know the real name of Hurricane Katrina because the coal and oil industries have spent millions of dollars to keep the public in doubt about the issue.

An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.

Everything I chose, I had already played in concert. For the competition, I wanted to pick pieces I know that people like.