Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

That aspects are within us; and who seems Most kingly is the King.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

At a night like this, where it's just me and the yellow moon, I feel complete.

[It is a] well-known fact that the likely contacts of two individuals who are closely acquainted tend to be more overlapping than those of two arbitrarily selected individuals.

The best predictor of future events is probably past events.

We have the best leaders and the most depth of leadership we've ever had. If I get hit by a truck, maybe it would get me out of the way and it would go better.

[At Conventions] they give me all the photos to sign. Star Wars, Superman. And Hammy the Pig is right up there.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives.

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

When you do your best you learn to accept yourself