In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Gratitude is pure happiness.Happiness is sure perfection.

I'd rather not have a moment when I'm known for my looks being funny and interesting lasts longer.

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

Happiness is the ultimate goal. It is the goal of all other goals.

I said to my husband, 'Why don't you call out my name when we're making love?' He said, 'I don't want to wake you up.'

You want to find a place where, because of your skills, you can make an impact.

I wake you up and as I stare in your face, you seem stunned. Remember me? The one you got your idea from?

Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.