Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.

I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.

One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.

I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.

He's the kind of guy who will stab you in the back right to your face.

When I do something, I do it all the way. I've been in show business so many years. I've achieved a lot of things.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

Today House Republicans are doing what they always do - using taxpayers' money to continue investigating claims that have already been debunked just to keep them in the headlines one more day.

We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.

You can't live wrong and pray right.

I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world

When you say "I am," the words that follow are summoning creation with a mighty force, because you are declaring it to be fact.

Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.

I want to take care of people. I want to help people. The maximum joy that I have is when I can create something that makes someone else's life lighter, brighter, or better.