It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!

People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.

Who knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man?

What you dream of, you will possess.

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.

Why did the 14-year old Mexican girl end up pregnant? Because her teacher told her to go do an essay.

I don't remember the hotel rooms or the airports but I always remember the events.

You don't know what's coming for you in life, and you don't know what's around the corner. When you're in a great deal of pain, you're only imagining your world the way it is.

Jokes are very curious things psychologically.

Nothing can relieve the pain. Not crying, laughing, screaming, begging. Nothing can change the past.

I’ve always been an entrepreneur, but it’s never been about the money. I like a challenge, the harder the better.

Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.