I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

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

Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.

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

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

Conventionality is not morality.

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

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

Perception meets you at the intersection of your beliefs and reality.

That you should not be here when something we've both wanted happens is no new thing for me. Today too, as always, you're not here.

Who can't like pigs? They're wonderful creatures! I've always liked pigs.

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

The sun don't shine in your TV!

Our gifts to this world, and this realm's gifts to us can come in many ways, often as we least expect them but they come especially when we are open to give, open to receive.

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

Human beings create more than they destroy.

I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.

Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives.