Hurting people is such a boyish thing to do.

I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others.

Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life.

There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

It takes four generations to recover from every act of violence.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

You nicked-named my daughter after the Lock Ness Monster!

Your positive thoughts are both the prayer, and the answer to your prayer.

What's there to remember if not the good things?

And to this day, my Mom is my role model.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.

the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.