Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.

So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.

sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.

I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.

I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.

Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.

I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.

This is the wonderful thing about the pure in heart--they do see God.

... to be human is to be on the defensive, somewhere, somehow.

Words are dangerous things.

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

Mother's Eden: Does your Matthew... Well, does he make you feel as if he just handed you a handful of Stars?Eden: He make me feel as if he handed me the moon as well, Mama. Maybe the whole universe.

After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. I leave.

I want to point out, that this is not my fault that everyone's afraid of me, because I did not kill a couple people the other day.

It is better than going on loving someone who cannot love me back. Better wasting all that feelings" -Tessa gray

Surround yourself with people who add the fuel of advice and encouragement to your fire.

I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.

Liberation also means that even though I'm a woman I have masculine parts of my temperament which I can safely explore and integrate into my experience.

Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.