Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Accept where you are, accept what you have, accept who you are ~ do what you can with all of that and let it be enough.

Popular versus literary—a false divide?

Trust is something that happens within people only when it is created between people.

When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.

As scary as change can be and as much as I might resist it, there's always some unkown gift that comes out of it. I really never thought you could begin again. You can.

I like politics. I like traveling in the United States.

Mr. Spock : 'I began to study human behavior from an alien perspective, thinking, humans are interesting, sad, foolish, but worthy of study.

Good innovators like to solve business crossword puzzles.

The power which works through the formative principles of every religion in every country is manifested in the forms of religion. . .

I don't want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.