We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

My ma always told me that when I found things were too hard to figure out, I could probably bet that I hadn't prayed on it first.

I want to keep living in this beautiful dream-world of ours.

A good commander, thought Ender, doesn't have to make stupid threats.

If I don't take care of myself and be kind to myself, then I can't take care of anyone else.

I prefer buying things and figuring out where to put them later than regretting not buying them.

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

I never relax on the year before. Every year I want to get more out of myself so I use it as a driving force, rather than a pressure thing.

Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.

I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.

I will never belong to anyone—I will die before I allow that to happen.