The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.

To a woman who knows her own mind men can only be a minor consideration.

I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.

Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Men and cats are unworthy creatures.

Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation.

I am the most interesting book of all.

To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed.

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.

What am I? Nothing. What would I be? Everything.

When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature.

Life, that is Paris! Paris, that is life!

It's not your schedule that keeps you from praying, it's your failure to realize the importance of prayer.

Men touch their horses to calm them, ” she said distantly. “They caress their falcons to remind them that they are bound. Touch smacks of ownership, and I am weary of being a possession.

If you lead me astray, then my wanderings will bring me to my destination.

Good looks only take you so far. You don't have to be the best looking guy.

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience.

I'm constantly changing up my show. It's never the same.

where is the 'punch' in sweetness and light?

Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the body and the body through the world.

Maybe being home schooled, Carter didn’t realize that “test” is normally a bad thing.