And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Conventionality is not morality.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

You are human and fallible.

You only fail when you stop trying.

To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.

It’s in the past. I can’t control what they did, only how I react to it. I’m not going to change who I am because of what some jack offs think of me.

I collect antiques. Why? Because they're beautiful.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

Not to ask is not be denied.

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.

Face your worry and see it as an illusion. It cannot exist unless you give it power and give it life.

Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.