How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.

Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

Nature always levies her tribute.

The seasons run with swift feet.

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

The heart will stretch a short love into long memories.

I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.

I'll be whatever you allow me to be, Blaire. Just don't shut me out again. Please.

Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

Hillary Clinton's raising the money from the people she wants to control.

Things will go wrong or end up differently than you had imagined, and that's OK.

Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.

Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.

I think I do have my own technique. I don't like to depend on teachers. So I'm walking on my own way, and I try to be as natural as I can. I think it's the only way to be yourself.

I think that when people experience something that seems to be supernatural, in some ways it cuts through the secular mindset.