I'm a writer first and a woman after.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

The mind I love must have wild places.

One of the great things about songwrighting

The most important thing in life is not what you are but what you have to offer.

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.

The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.

Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.