It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have.

If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

I believe my friends think I'm funny. All the books are full of humor. Maybe it is a quiet sort of humor that masquerades as not-much-at-all. It is certainly easy to miss.

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages.

I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

We tire differently if we love or love not.

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and new Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries

Feminism means to me being comfortable with who you are as a woman and being unapologetic about it.

I don't really have Down's syndrome; I just have a slight case of it.

A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.

The first thing in all progress is to leave something behind.

What is loved is a hit. What is a hit is loved.

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

Nothing substitutes for positive thinking. Nothing. It is more powerful than all the money, all the influence, all the 'friends in high places' on earth.

I fly with the stars in the skies I am no longer trying to survive.

I never understood the concept of showing everything in the trailer. Why go to a movie if there's no surprise? I can't do it like that.