A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.

A perfect marriage is like a pure heart ... those who have it are fit to see God.

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure.

Imagination is built upon knowledge.

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

My Favourite hobby is to sit still and convert oxygen into Carbon Dioxide. Love to Live.

Carefully analyze the old stories that you choose to perpetually tell, for these are really life-long meditations.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

I just have this fear that I'll get on stage and there'll be that brief moment of adrenalin and I'll forget my line.

The note wasn't signed, but I could tell it was from Morelli by the way my nipples got hard.

If my music doesn't fit, I understand, ... If I'm to play my music, that's the way it's gonna be.

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

Well, that’s that, then. We’re all going to die. Charming.

Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.