I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Without reading many different books, you can never leave the port of ignorance and can never obtain the peaceful mind of knowing the truth!

Our chances of survival were entirely dependent on our ability and willingness to dominate others.

I am not a typical human being. I am me and don't try to be anything but that because God didn't give us all different fingerprints if he wanted us all to be the same. lol -- TAMMY WOOSTER

I have felt darkness lead me by the hand Over the hill to greet the singing dawn.

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.

Sometimes I dress like what I want for lunch, because all I can think about is having a tuna sandwich.

The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.

You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.