Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

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.

One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns and derives from love.

What was once my FUTURE is now my PAST

You can NEVER rise higher than your expectations of yourself. Expect the BEST!

The dogs, and home, privacy is my constant.

Being a parent is very important to me.

Corruption is simply crime without conscience.

I don't direct the plays of others.

I found myself recycling ideas and I saw that I had to invent reasons to compose a piece rather than start from some exciting idea.

The happy person often walks, unshaken, along the path that a thousand unhappy people insist is wrong.

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.