I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trode the old track with stupid exactness not to deviate an inch from the beaten centre.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Conventionality is not morality.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

Yes, but does Maine have anything to SAY to Florida?

I find it weird that people want to know about you.

The thought "It's impossible" sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove you're right.

To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn 100 million into $110 million is inevitable.

I'm not impressed with presidents. I have met a few, but I'm not impressed with them.

Will not be punished for your anger, your anger is the punishment.

I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.

Faith is my motivation to win.

I work too hard, I'd be a really bad mom, unfortunately. I can't even keep a plant!

I didn't have any hair anywhere for almost seven months. So now finally I've got some hair, I'm gonna keep it.