My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.

Are we to go out with trumpets and tell everything we know, just because it is true? Is there not such a thing as egotistical truthfulness?

warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow.

Time is not so all-erasing as we think.

It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?

If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us.

They did not realize what a supreme effort of courage it required to make this young girl go out alone into the wide world, and face its vastness and its strangeness.

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house but you cannot build the house without them.

Prayer purifies the heart.

Anything the Austrians could do, the Prussians could do better.

I have my moments, I just can't remember where I put them.

Love and hate are not opposites

Sleep. It's like giving yourself a massage.

When you accept the fact you have no control and choose not to take any action, you are letting go.

I always knew the woman I wanted to be-I knew I wanted to be a woman who was independent a woman who was in the driving seat, a woman who didn't need for the man to decide.

Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.

When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.

There is gold everywhere, most people are not trained to see it