We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up.

And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien.

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.

I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.

Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.

What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy.

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

It is easier to be a mere performer and not to make serious decisions, to live with an assistance of someone else’s mind and obey someone else’s command when you are a person of victim mentality

Great is the art of beginning but greater is the art of ending.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

I enjoy spending time with other awakened people and feeling the shared vibration of that, whereas just fun for its own sake might no longer be quite so enticing as it used to be.

Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.

I don't think it's any secret I've never been an advocate for the Affordable Care Act.

My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.

My ideal guy would be funny and fun to be around.

I don't see how anybody could have a passion for nature without having an equally developed tolerance for the cold.