Men are vile inconstant toads.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Solitude begets whimsies.

The quickest way to find honey is to follow bees.

There is a simple maxim that I use to express this situation, 'when tolerance becomes a one way street, it leads to cultural suicide.'

I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.

I'm able to express myself better now. I have come to accept the real me. I have come to love the real me. I now celebrate the real me.

Everyone of us has a heaven inside.

I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.

Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.

Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.

As artists, you always want to push yourself. There's always new territory.

I don't think limits.