Fame has only the span of the day they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

With you, I am. Without you, I am not.

Right is right even if no one is doing it

In America, the dreamers, the disabled and the disadvantaged are not left to defend themselves, alone in their struggles.

Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.

We just could not have the Church of Jesus Christ without the spirit of missionary work.

I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.

If we listen to our hearts, believe in ourselves, and pull together, nothing can stand in our way.

I don't want the success to go away. I don't want it to seem unearned.

Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.