His mind has the clearness of the deep sea, the patience of its rocks, the force of its billows.

Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.

I'll borrow of imagination what reality will not give me.

Our power of being happy lies a good deal in ourselves, I believe.

Having a large world of his own in his own head and heart, he tolerated confinement to a small, still corner of the real world very patiently.

. . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves.

In her past were sweet passages, in her future rosy hopes.

He did not yet known how many commenced lefe-romances are doomed never to get beyond the first, or at most the second chapter.

Existence was never originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me among the rest.

I will bestir myself, ' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good.

Endurance over-goaded, stretched the hand of fraternity to sedition.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.

The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.

Believe me when I tell you my soul has squeezed into narrow spaces.

I´m a stranger in a strange land.

I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art.

I could never get a real good clear picture of what I could become.

Back when I was dating, the dreaded C word was Commitment. As soon as most men found out I had a child, they ran. If I ever got close enough to say the words, 'I love you,' they ran faster.

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree.

I started making music professionally when I was 14.