It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

I think, as a child, there weren't dreams. I can't recall as a child having some ultimate dream and thinking that it was possible.

I put a lot of faith in dreams. I know that big movie roles and opportunities are going to happen.

I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.

I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?

I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.

The feminists hate me, don't they? And I don't blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.

I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.

I never said I was a genius.

Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.

The breeze of God's grace is blowing continually. You have to set your sail to catch that breeze.