Childish and slender creature! It seemed as if a linnet had hopped to my foot and proposed to bear me on its tiny wing.

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.

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

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.

She was everything he'd ever wanted in a woman, and nothing he'd ever thought to find in a lady.

If you want the best evidence of just how strong our democracy is, come into the courtroom.

The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

Men pass away, but their deeds abide. [His last words.]

Music, to me, if it's good, it's good. That's all that matters.

Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.

It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.

If we agree that the world is not what it seems, then we have an important question: What shall we do about it?