Love is the piety of the affections.

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.

Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.

Lack of planning is the cause of most failures.

Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.

Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.

Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.

Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

For a long time, my uniform consisted of a trench coat, wide flared jeans, and little bottines - I copied a pair that my mother had in this theater place. I had, like, 10 pairs of the same shoes.