It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.

Overnight I became a cottage industry.

You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I'd probably put humility somewhere before gratitude.

The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.

True friends are always near, the Goddess said. Beneath the eyelids on a stormy night, around the bend in a wicked dream, hearkening to the future by the chimes of their companion’s call.

Close your eyes, and lo, they are opened! But never shall they close again.

Eldora smiled up at Paulo cunningly, her dark eyes twinkling. “You are old, Father.”“Not as old as I shall be, before I have finished with the universe.

Sometimes we must leave our true homes for something greater to come.

Maybe I'm just sick of putting more into this friendship than I get out of it.

Art is a visual language

God creates the destiny of every nation according to the times

What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.

My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.

I think it's fair to say that Nina Simone was a prodigy.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

If you go into any department store these days, your picture is probably taken 30 times. In London there are 500,000 cameras in public spaces. You have no expectation of privacy in public spaces.

Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.