Of all the well-meant emotions pity is the cruelest to share.

If every planet in the Patriarchy refused to be ruled, we all would be free.

They gave me eyes. All of you are beautiful; you shine like stars. But I must go away with them.

Usha had said that males were not all that different, just bigger outside to make up for what they lacked within.

A thousand fools believe a lie, and it's good as truth.

There was no time for bitterness now: eat bitterness, and bitterness eats you.

You are as responsible for what you let happen as for the actions you share.

Death hastens those who hasten death.

Death can be hastened but never shared.

A life postponed too long might never be lived.

Few fears are rational.

...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don’t pluck them!

I'm tired of answering questions about myself.

It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!

My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't belong in my work.

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.

As long as art lives never shall I accept that men are truly dead.

That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.

F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.

If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.