Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

When you recognize that you are your own SoulMate, you feel at home and peaceful within yourself, no matter what is going on in your love life.

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

I think one of the big things that's come out of ghostwriting for me is real compassion for the complexity of fame.

I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that's one of the reasons for campus unrest.

It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is?

Like love, grief fades in and out.

But after several hours, I go anyway, walking in silent sock feet, so as not to awaken the ghosts.

Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires.