I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Shelby watched the books burn. She wonders if words are pouring down on other people's houses, sad words, like beast and mourn and sorrow and mother.

Develop a vocabulary of uplifting and empowering words for times of uncertainty and upheaval.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them

Mortal birth is a boon to which only those spirits who kept their first estate are eligible.

Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.

O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent

If being original means having to throw paint in front of a jet turbine to hit a canvas 50 ft away then lets not be original.

I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or 14 years old. But I was also really shy when I was growing up.

Everything is deeply intertwingled.

When a belief becomes dominant in American psychological circles one can be sure of one thing: that belief refers to something that no longer exists.