It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.

To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.

Heed the spark or you may dread the fire.

It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.

Girls! Girls! Those of you who have hearts, and therefore a wish for happiness, homes and husbands by and by, never develop a reputation for being clever.

There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right.

Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable.

In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.

I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.

So what if I fall? I know I will never fallas hard as i fell for you.

All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself

By dint of saying that I'm not alive, I accept the fact that people cease to regard me.

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

How can I see the future if it didn't already exist?

All objects whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, are mere appearances to the mind just like things experienced in a dream

I met someone from the German side and we both shared the same opinion: we fought, we finished and we were friends... It wasn't worth it.

He leaned back for a moment to tug her shirt down her arms, with the same wicked, lovley smile that had first stolen her breath years ago.

The middle income families in America have been crushed over the last four years.

When I first started out, I got criticism for the way I looked. I think, now, it's a good thing because, why would you want to look like everyone else?