And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.

Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

The world was hers for the reading.

There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky.

In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.

It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.

People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life...And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.

The commitment to love always transforms, heals, and opens new avenues of creativity.

I have been accused of many things in my life, but not even my worst enemy has ever accused me of being afraid to speak my mind.

When somebody wants to work and believes in something, it doesn't matter if you're well known or rich or whatever it is.

Living for today will bring about dying for today. You can’t just think, ‘I’m going to die anyway,’ because that’s what’s stopping us from moving forward.

I'm still alive. And I'm still fabulous.

It is of great importance that the laws by which the contracts of so numerous and so useful a body of men as the sailors are supposed to be guided, should not be overturned.

the 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value.