Do anything, save to lie down and die!

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.

...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.

Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread.

Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated.

Does anybody remember the day when family was family, a woman was a woman, and a man was a man?

Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it.

My grandfather used to say ‘It is my house I am paying the bills’, my dad used to say ‘this is my house I pay the mortgage’, my generation is saying this is my house I pay the rent.

There's nothing to be said for being famous. It's a pain. You can't be rude to people - it's inexcusable not to be nice. Anyway, it's not in my nature. I was trained to be nice.

I know my sound, and I have to be true to who I am as an artist, even though I want be real cool, and make really cool music.

We will not know Him, until we become like him.

Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.

Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.

I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it.

A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.