I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.

The student is to read history actively not passively.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

What I must do is all that concerns me,

You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel.

The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

[The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.

It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?

There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome, than that of being a mother.

Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.

By letting go, it all gets done.

But if I wasn't playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away.

Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight.

The idea that people are incapable of making up their own minds about people is something that Obama and his party live with every day.

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.