For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels.

The destination lies in the dream.

Leaders lead themselves first and foremost. Only then can they act as example and inspiration to others.

Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.

The process of discovering who we are and what we are here to do . . . is dependent . . . on our ability to stay positive and to find a silver lining in all events.

I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.

I feel fine and comfortable with myself, but not because I'm beautiful.

In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.