Those who trust us educate us.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

Books have power to bring you glory or doom, it all depends on perception.

From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Praise God we don't have to hide scars

Do you think they missed him terribly when he fell? Did God cry over his lost angel, I wonder?

I think my parents' lives are worthy of writing about. I don't think my life is particularly worthy of writing about.

In all my documentaries I did all the camera work, but in fiction I didn't want to do it myself. I think the machinery is so heavy and demanding that you would leave the actors alone for a long time.

people's feelings about themselves change when they change the way they handle their money. Once they begin treating their money with respect, their self-respect shoots up as well.