Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

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?

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical

life is what u make it, if you want yours to be a cake just go ahead and bake it

The poet wants justice. And the poet wants art. In poetry we can't have one without the other.

We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

I never came into life with any favours or privileges.

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

The paper burns, but the words fly away.

Apparently, despite my awareness of its pejorative connotation, procrastinating is something I fall victim to quite frequently. I'm not proud of it; I'm just being honest.

Investing today may well be harder than it has been at any time in our three decades of existence.