I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at God those which console. An atom may wound, but God alone can heal.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

There is a transcendent power in example.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

I puked rainbows all over my childhood, and it felt so good.

In parenting, as in judging, the days are long, but the years are short.

For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.

It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones.

And Ive had vocal training on and off for years.

If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.

It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.

I think all the poets and artists have always written for peace and love, and it hasn’t changed much in the last two or three thousand years. But we hope.

The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven.

With four? Doing a little... Addition? Multiplication?