Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words.

I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world.

No one is loved as much as you by the people. Don't waste that power.

In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.

I am convinced, the longer I live, that life & its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed, are [as] when we are suffering greatly, we are inclined to suppose.

My husband is not a Christian but is a religious man, I think.

If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.

No one has ever lived who knows better than you the proper placement of footfalls on treacherous paths.

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'

Beautiful, Glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country.

Let’s have a life with momentum and action. Set a goal for every day and every season.

I have written until I fell asleep with my computer on my lap. That can't be normal.

Shouldn't we stand back to back or something?" "What? Why?" "I don't know. In movies that's what they do in this kind of… situation.

Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.

They asked me for some collateral and I pulled down my pants.

If LOVE could talk to you about your relationship with food, what would it say?

We must attend to what our inner guidance is nudging us toward.

One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers.

Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.

I had to learn to do stuff only for myself, and stop thinking about pleasing some imaginary client or boss. It's a habit that many artists get into that have worked in commercial ventures.