I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull!' he said. 'It is in danger of splitting its skull against my knuckles. By God! Mr. Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down!

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

I will walk where my own nature would be leading.

No coward soul is mine.

I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

After several minutes, picture that your entire body is merging with the blue sky. Feel that you have become the infinite blue sky that stretches endlessly in every direction.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.

We must . . . guarantee women control over their own reproductive decisions.

Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life.

It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?

The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me.

I've often called mothers the greatest spiritual teachers in the world.

Who cares who's captain after the wings have fallen off.