A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Time will explain.

I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

On our show, I've only reached out and touched about 55 guys. I think there's still about 40 million.

Ladies and gentlemen, after what I've been through, I am happy just to be wearing clothes that open in the front.

That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

Is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in. It was more than that. I know it was more than that.

Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others.

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women