I have read of women who have been strongly, grandly brave. Sometimes I have dreamed that I might be brave. The possibilities of this life are magnificent.

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.

I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.

One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.

I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.

No one can give you that which you can find within yourself.

The bond of two souls is divine.

I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.

At least if we don't close down the Environmental Protection Agency, we at least put a snaffle bit on them and ride the pony down.

If Perl is the solution, you're solving the wrong problem.

Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.

The emails that give evidence of access for money and how Hillary Clinton herself benefited from this and how she is benefitting politically, are quite extraordinary.

I've never been as happy as I am now, because I followed the signs, I was patient, and I know that this is going to change everything.

Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.