Compassion is often mistaken for weakness, when the fact is, there is very little that is more powerful than the courage it takes to give it.

I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

Your sacred time is now! Begin to live passionately.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

one of the good things about being a woman is that my level of testosterone poisoning is lower than most men's.

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.

If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

But the English do not know what surprise is. No one ever turns his head to look at anyone else in the street.

If you love somebody, set them free.