No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.

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.

Whenever a woman gets pregnant, she literally bets with her life.

The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.

I don't like to think of myself as a 'virgin'. I prefer to think of myself as 'sexually incomplete'. You know. Like I haven't finished the course yet.

Government! Government! What do I get for all I give, I'd like to know! Potholes and bombs!

To look for a job before looking deeply inward is likely to short-circuit the process of finding your calling.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.

I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.

The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.

I have turned into a bit of a homebody as I've gotten older. I don't really like to leave the couch in Los Angeles, but when a job comes around that you feel you have to do, you get up and do it.